Durable object, current steward
A portfolio, a watch, a capability is the canonical object. The minister or official responsible for it today is its current steward. When stewards change, the intelligence does not restart.
Sovereignty
How CanadaAtlas holds intelligence so that it belongs to the institution, survives the people who hold office, and can be shared without being surrendered.
Intelligence belongs to the institution, not the officeholder.
Officeholders change. Priorities change. The intelligence beneath a mandate is a durable object, not a personal file.
Memory outlives governments
Lessons, decisions and patterns are held as institutional memory. The point of the system is that the next decision inherits what the last one learned.
Share what is chosen, not the data
Federation means a department can share a finding, a signal or a judgment without surrendering the underlying record. Intelligence can be shared without being centralized.
Evidence before conclusion
Every claim carries its provenance. A conclusion is only as strong as the evidence beneath it, and the interface says so plainly rather than presenting inference as fact.
Federation, not centralization
A shared finding travels; the source record stays where it is governed. Departments contribute to a common picture while retaining authority over their own data.
Department holds recordShares a findingCommon picture formsRecord stays governed