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Part of #949.

This is the Canada (arckit-ca) part of #949. Each disputed fact was checked against the primary source. The command, guide, recipe and dependency docs now agree.

Decisions

Item	Decision	Primary source
SOIA name. The ca-itsg-33 guide called it a "Statement of Initial Authority".	SOIA is the Security of Information Act handling plan, as the ca-soia command, its template and doc-types.mjs already say. Only the guide was wrong; no other file used the "Initial Authority" name.	Security of Information Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. O-5. Section 8(1) defines "special operational information". https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/O-5/
ca-pspc ordering. The command read the SOBC and also handed off to it. The guide said to run it after the business case, and the recipe ran the business case after it.	Business case first, then procurement strategy. The sobc handoff is removed from the command and the guide. The command's SOBC input now says the strategy is written for the option the business case recommends. The guide's "When to run" cites the Directive and says to revisit the business case at the next gate if the strategy moves the cost or the route. In the recipe, SOBC deps are [REQ, STKE, RISK] and CA_PSPC deps are [REQ, SOBC, CA_ITSG, CA_CRES].	TBS Directive on the Management of Projects and Programmes: D.1 (every project must be supported by a business case); Appendix E, which puts the business-case results and the comparison of options (E.2.4) and the recommended option's baseline (E.2.5) ahead of the procurement strategy (E.2.7); 4.2.19 (business case revalidated at each gate). https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32594. Also the Directive on the Management of Procurement 4.2.5 (engage contracting authorities at the outset of investment planning): https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32692
Recipe ran REQ alongside STKE.	STKE now runs before REQ (STKE in wave 2, REQ in wave 3). /arckit:requirements lists STKE as MANDATORY ("warn if missing"), while /arckit:stakeholders reads REQ only as context.	plugins/arckit-claude/commands/requirements.md step 2

Other guide/command contradictions fixed (clear-cut)

• ca-itsg-33 and ca-cloud-residency guides. Both guides named the DR-* requirements as the source of per-element sensitivity. Both commands read the data model (DATA) for it. fix: overlay commands, templates and guides name registered doc-type codes (#949) #964 changed the commands to DATA and the guides to DR-*, so the two drifted apart. The guides now list the data model. The ca-cloud-residency guide also gains the PIA input that its command reads.
• ca-soia guide. It listed a PIA input that the command never reads. The recipe and the dependency matrix leave it out too, so the row is removed.
• Dependency matrix (docs/ and plugin copies) and docs/commands.html. These listed fr-dr (France's Diffusion Restreinte command) as a recommended input to ca-itsg-33, which contradicted the matrix's own note that DR is not shown. The rows for ca-itsg-33 and ca-cloud-residency now show data-model at R, matching the commands' unmarked DATA read.
• Recipe header. It described ca-pspc as "ICV", which is the UAE In-Country Value programme. It now says Indigenous procurement.

Docs updated to match the new recipe order

• docs/WORKFLOW-DIAGRAMS.md 7a and 7b add stakeholders between principles and requirements, and run sobc before ca-pspc. These diagrams state that they show the recipe's run order.
• docs/DEPENDENCY-MATRIX.md: in the 2026-05-04 Canada entry, the ca-pspc → sobc handoff row is removed and both canonical chains are re-ordered.

Files changed

• plugins/arckit-ca/commands/ca-pspc.md
• plugins/arckit-ca/recipes/ca-federal-fitaa.yaml
• docs/guides/ca-itsg-33.md, ca-pspc.md, ca-soia.md, ca-cloud-residency.md. Their plugin copies were regenerated by check-guide-parity.py --sync.
• docs/DEPENDENCY-MATRIX.md, plugins/arckit-claude/docs/DEPENDENCY-MATRIX.md, docs/commands.html, docs/WORKFLOW-DIAGRAMS.md
• The nested mirror under plugins/arckit-claude/plugins/ca/, regenerated by sync-claude-plugin-layout.py

No template changes were needed. The ca-pspc template already reads the SOBC affordability envelope, which fits the business-case-first order.

Judgement calls left open

1. Every other recipe runs REQ alongside STKE. That covers all four core recipes under skills/arckit-build/recipes/ and the au, us, uae, togaf, oaa, agent-architecture and au-energy recipes. This PR changes only the Canada recipe. Core sobc.md also says to run it "Before: /arckit:requirements", which does not match the core recipes, where SOBC runs after REQ. Both belong in a core follow-up.
2. Other upstream-pointing handoffs in the overlay, left as they are: ca-soia → ca-itsg-33, ca-cloud-residency → ca-itsg-33, and ca-atip/ca-aia/ca-ocap → ca-pia. Each one hands off to a command it also reads as a prerequisite, so it works as a "revisit" cross-reference. None of them contradicts its guide or the recipe the way ca-pspc → sobc did.
3. ca-charter vs ca-fitaa ordering. The ca-charter guide says Charter §2 analysis is "unconditional after /arckit:ca-fitaa" and "typically after the PIA". The recipe deliberately runs ca-charter first, because it informs the FITAA, PIA and AIA designs, and ca-fitaa hands off to ca-charter. The guide's wording can be read as "mandatory once FITAA applies", so it was not changed. A Canadian domain reviewer should choose.
4. PSAB → PSIB. Across the overlay (command, guide, template, README), "Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business" carries its pre-2021 acronym PSAB (Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business). Indigenous Services Canada now uses PSIB. This is stale wording, not a contradiction between files, so it is left for a separate change. Source: https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1753131962825/1753132000580
5. The Act's alternative title. The Security of Information Act may now also be cited as the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act (2024, c. 16, s. 50, from Bill C-70). Bill C-70 also amended the Act itself, so the ca-soia guide's line that the Act "itself is comparatively stable" may be out of date. That line was not changed.

Checks

• scripts/check_recipes.py: OK, 15 recipes validated
• scripts/check-doc-type-registry.py: OK, 408 recipe targets agree with their command's declared doc-type
• pytest: 2420 passed, 228 skipped
• node --test tests/plugin/*.test.mjs tests/plugin/test_*.mjs tests/certification/*.test.mjs: 653 passed, 0 failed
• Lint checks: 34 checks, 0 failed
• markdownlint-cli2@0.18.1 "**/*.md": 0 errors
• Sync order run: check-guide-parity.py --sync → sync-shared-assets.py (0 files) → sync-claude-plugin-layout.py → converter.py

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