Public-interest digital infrastructure · Vancouver, BC
Building the infrastructure for Canadians to manage their digital relationships on their own terms — and converting that participation into policy-relevant intelligence about who controls our data economy.
Phase 1 · Now deploying
You cannot govern what you cannot see.
Why Now
Bill C-27
Canada's long-awaited privacy reform is stalled — but the policy debate is live. LEON generates the ground-level data that reform debates currently lack.
US Cloud Risk
Post-2025 policy shifts have made Canadian reliance on US-owned cloud infrastructure a sovereignty question, not just a procurement one.
No Ground Truth
Regulators debate concentration without data. No participatory instrument exists to measure Canada's personal data economy from the bottom up. Until now.
Our Approach
For thirty years, companies have built Customer Relationship Management systems — databases that track, model, and monetize you. Cloud Commons Canada is building the other side: Vendor Relationship Management infrastructure that puts individuals and communities in charge of their digital relationships.
Your relationship data — what apps you use, which cloud providers hold your information, how portable your digital life is — belongs to you. We build the tools to surface it, the standards to protect it, and the commons to make it useful for everyone.
The Status Quo
Companies collect, model, and monetize your data. You have no visibility into what's held, where it lives, or who profits.
The Missing Piece
Canadian policy debates cloud concentration in the abstract. There's no participatory instrument to measure it from the ground up.
Our Contribution
Tools for individuals to assert their own terms, communities to aggregate signals, and policymakers to see what's actually happening.
The Infrastructure
The institutional mission of Cloud Commons Canada — not any single app, but the four-phase architecture that converts individual participation into public-interest intelligence.
Tools may evolve. The pipeline remains. Each phase governed by consent, obfuscation, and open publication.
// 01 · Observe
Individuals voluntarily map their app ecosystem — ownership, cloud provider, jurisdiction, SDK dependencies. Seeing is the first act of sovereignty.
// 02 · Model
Anonymized profiles become structural maps — concentration scores, portability readiness, jurisdiction exposure — obfuscated from cloud platforms.
// 03 · Return
Participants receive their personal exposure report — improvements, alternatives, and a clear picture of their digital footprint.
// 04 · Govern
National findings published open-access. No paywall, no embargo. Policy bodies receive structured, citable data.
Data Principle
No packet inspection. No behavioural tracking. Structural metadata only — always in service of the individual.
Consent Model
Participation voluntary. Aggregation requires explicit opt-in. Withdrawal is immediate and complete.
Publication
All national findings published open-access. No licensing fees. No proprietary hold on public data.
Phase 1 · LEON
LEON is the pipeline's first instrument — a participatory tool that gives Canadians visibility into their personal data environment, then aggregates that visibility into national structural intelligence. Quarterly check-ins. Plain-language exposure reports. Actionable alternatives.
Select your apps. LEON cross-references ownership, cloud provider, jurisdiction, and SDK footprint from our public database.
Cloud concentration score, portability readiness, jurisdiction risk. Your privacy credit report in plain language.
Better-governed alternatives and practical privacy improvements. A doctor's note, not a lecture.
Add your anonymized profile to Canada's structural map. Your participation becomes national policy intelligence.
Q1 — January
LEON barks. Annual audit. New year, fresh exposure score.
Q2 — April
Spring review. New apps? Shifted jurisdiction risk?
Q3 — July
Mid-year check. What's changed in Canada's app landscape?
Q4 — October
Annual report drops. Canada's structural exposure — from your participation.
Governance
Incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. Dissolution clause: remaining assets go to Canadian charities aligned with open-source technology or digital education. No exit path to private benefit on the public infrastructure.
Chair / President
Gregory James Czaplak
Vancouver, BC · Founder. Architect of LEON and the Cloud Commons platform.
Treasurer
Aaron Peter Fryer
Vancouver, BC · Financial oversight. Signing officer, Vancity Credit Union.
Secretary
Mthandazo Edwin Siziba
Winnipeg, MB · Corporate records and national governance perspective.
Federal Corp #
1680382-2
BC Reg #
A0140725
Incorporated
2025-03-05
Data Policy
No monetization.
Contact
Whether you are a researcher, a funder, a regulator, a journalist, or a Canadian who wants to understand their data exposure — the same address reaches us. We respond to everything.
info@cloudcommonscanada.org →// Individuals
LEON pilot access & personal exposure reports
// Researchers & Policy
Methodology, datasets, co-authorship
// Funders & Institutions
Phase 1 brief, governance docs, partnership
// Media & Policy Partners
Platform reports, data access, background
// Policy context
CCC produces the national measurement layer that Canadian economic sovereignty policy requires — empirical data on foreign platform concentration, jurisdiction exposure, and portability across the Canadian app ecosystem. Our findings are designed for use by policy institutions, researchers, and regulators working on Canadian digital infrastructure.
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