Canada Regional Governments
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Upper-tier and regional governments: counties and regional municipalities, regional districts and MRCs.
Median score
57
across 130 sites
Middle half
52–62
spread around the median
Full range
28–72
lowest to highest
Gated
49 of 130
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | Upper-tier and regional governments, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing; Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec; Province of British Columbia (BC Geographic Warehouse); Statistics Canada; Wikidata (Ontario list 2022-10-05; MAMH Répertoire 2026-10-30; BC regional districts read 2026-11-02; 2021 Census) |
|---|---|
| License | Ontario's list of municipalities under the Open Government Licence – Ontario (read 2026-11-05); CC BY 4.0 (Données Québec); Open Government Licence – British Columbia; Statistics Canada Open Licence; Wikidata CC0 1.0. Every one permits commercial republishing with attribution. |
| Cite as | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec, Répertoire des municipalités du Québec, Données Québec, CC BY 4.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0002-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. |
| How we filtered it | Ontario: the 30 'Upper Tier' entries and their linked sites. Quebec: every MRC, metropolitan community and regional administration in the MAMH Répertoire, with its own website, plus the regional government in MUN.csv. BC: the 27 regional districts (Stikine Region, unincorporated, dropped), addresses from Wikidata P856 on the census-division code. |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Distribution
Where the 130 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 73 | 56.2% | |
| Adequate | 46 | 35.4% | |
| Not ready | 11 | 8.5% |
By dimension
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
76% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
58% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
28% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
54% |
How much of each site we read
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
1 site in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
Where this cohort fails
10 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 130 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 130 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 125 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 130 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 127 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 2 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 10 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 109 | 2 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 130 | 2 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 130 | 3 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
Common — 90 to 95%
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 130 | 0 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 130 | 2 | |
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 130 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 130 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 130 | 0 | |
| MSR-7 | Are you set up in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and do you read their AI reports? | 130 | 0 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 148, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
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| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRC La Vallée-de-l'Or mrcvo.qc.caregister id mamh:AR890; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 31 | |
| MRC La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau mrcvg.qc.caregister id mamh:AR830; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu mrcvr.cablockedregister id mamh:AR570; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| MRC Lac-Saint-Jean-Est mrclacsaintjeanest.qc.caregister id mamh:AR930; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Le Domaine-du-Roy domaineduroy.caregister id mamh:AR910; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| MRC Le Fjord-du-Saguenay mrc-fjord.qc.caregister id mamh:AR942; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 31 | |
| MRC Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent mrcgsl.caregister id mamh:AR982; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Le Granit mrcgranit.qc.caregister id mamh:AR300; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Le Haut-Richelieu mrchr.qc.caregister id mamh:AR560; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Le Haut-Saint-François mrchsf.comregister id mamh:AR410; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Le Haut-Saint-Laurent mrchsl.comregister id mamh:AR690; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Le Rocher-Percé mrcrocherperce.qc.caregister id mamh:AR020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Le Val-Saint-François val-saint-francois.qc.caregister id mamh:AR420; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| MRC Les Appalaches mrcdesappalaches.caregister id mamh:AR310; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 31 | |
| MRC Les Basques mrcdesbasques.comregister id mamh:AR110; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais mrcdescollinesdeloutaouais.qc.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR820; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| MRC Les Etchemins mrcetchemins.qc.caregister id mamh:AR280; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 1 | |
| MRC Les Jardins-de-Napierville mrcjardinsdenapierville.caregister id mamh:AR680; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Les Laurentides mrclaurentides.qc.caregister id mamh:AR780; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Les Maskoutains mrcmaskoutains.qc.caregister id mamh:AR540; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Les Moulins mrclesmoulins.caregister id mamh:AR640; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Les Pays-d'en-Haut lespaysdenhaut.comregister id mamh:AR770; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Les Sources mrcdessources.comregister id mamh:AR400; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Lotbinière mrclotbiniere.orgregister id mamh:AR330; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Manicouagan mrcmanicouagan.qc.caregister id mamh:AR960; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Marguerite-D'Youville margueritedyouville.caregister id mamh:AR590; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Maria-Chapdelaine mrcdemaria-chapdelaine.caregister id mamh:AR920; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Maskinongé mrcmaskinonge.cablockedregister id mamh:AR510; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| MRC Matawinie matawinie.orgregister id mamh:AR620; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| MRC Mékinac mrcmekinac.comregister id mamh:AR350; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Memphrémagog mrcmemphremagog.comregister id mamh:AR450; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Minganie mrcminganie.comregister id mamh:AR981; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Montcalm mrcmontcalm.comregister id mamh:AR630; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Montmagny montmagny.comregister id mamh:AR180; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Nicolet-Yamaska mrcnicolet-yamaska.qc.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR500; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| MRC Papineau mrcpapineau.comregister id mamh:AR800; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| MRC Pierre-De Saurel mrcpierredesaurel.comregister id mamh:AR530; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| MRC Pontiac mrcpontiac.qc.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR840; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| MRC Portneuf portneuf.caregister id mamh:AR340; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 18 | |
| MRC Rimouski-Neigette mrc-rn.caregister id mamh:AR100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Rivière-du-Loup mrcriviereduloup.caregister id mamh:AR120; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Roussillon roussillon.caregister id mamh:AR670; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Rouville mrcrouville.qc.caregister id mamh:AR550; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| MRC Sept-Rivières mrc.septrivieres.qc.caregister id mamh:AR971; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| MRC Témiscamingue mrctemiscamingue.orgregister id mamh:AR850; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| MRC Témiscouata mrctemiscouata.qc.caregister id mamh:AR130; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Thérèse-De Blainville mrc-tdb.orgregister id mamh:AR730; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges mrcvs.caregister id mamh:AR710; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.