Our traffic is open-book. Here's what's real and what's automated.

In a typical 24-hour period, a significant percentage of raw HTTP requests to this site originate from cloud infrastructure addresses around the world, including providers based in China, the United States, and Europe. This is consistent with global web traffic patterns, research from Imperva, Cloudflare, and Akamai consistently shows that 30–50% of all web traffic worldwide is automated bot traffic.

On March 16, 2026, Ontario Premier Doug Ford referenced foreign threats as justification for proposed changes to Ontario’s Freedom of Information laws (Bill 97). Government ministers referenced “foreign countries” taking advantage of Ontario’s “openness through predatory information gathering.”

The automated traffic this site receives from global cloud infrastructure is standard web crawling that every public website on the internet experiences. It is not intelligence gathering, it is not information warfare, and it is not evidence of foreign influence. The Ontario government’s own website, the Legislative Assembly’s website, and every other .ca domain receives identical traffic.

We publish this disclosure proactively because transparency should not be something advocates demand only from governments, it should be something we practice ourselves.