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Canada and U.S. cooperation

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) works through two organisations, in Canada and the United States. Each keeps its own legal identity. Each decides within written roles. When one acts alone, the page names it. The roles, decision boundaries, shared services and publisher of therisk.global are below. Part of About GCRI.

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01Contents

Canada and U.S. cooperation in four parts.

In this dossier4 parts

01RolesWritten roles for each organisation
02BoundariesEach decides within its own authority
03Shared servicesServices GCRI Canada provides, under written agreements
04PublisherWho is responsible for this website

02Roles

Written roles for each organisation.

Area	GCRI Canada	GCRI US
Place in GCRI	Lead organisation	United States institution of GCRI
Programme role	Consortium Secretariat and global contracting party in support of the national and regional consortiums	Work within GCRI’s mandate for research, development and policy, within its own scope
Legal identity	Canadian not-for-profit organisation	Separate organisation with its own legal identity
Published address	Toronto, ON M4R 1V2	4500 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706, United States

03Boundaries

Each decides within its own authority.

Neither organisation is the parent, agent or employer of the other.
Commitments bind only the organisation that makes them, under its own governance.
A shared name or a shared page does not transfer a status, a membership or an obligation from one to the other.
Where both take part in the same work, the agreement names each one’s responsibilities.

04Governance and structure

How the institution is governed.

Governance

Technical office and Secretariat

Consortium · Governance · Research · Platforms · Programme year · Foundry · Standards · Reports · Take part · Foundry year · Reports year · Handoffs · Contributed capacity · Programme states · Records · Report streams · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Platform onboarding · Foundry builds · Labs · Reports · Standards adoption · Risk Academy · Index data intake · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Engineering change · Incident response and forensics · Provider exit and decommissioning · De-risking case handoff · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · National Nexus formation · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Ethics · Public transparency · Data stewardship and trust · Gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · Adopting a Nexus Standard · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Working-group assignment by competence · National company and SPV · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Provider qualification

GCRI is one institution working through two organisations, with GCRI Canada as Lead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation.

01 Two organisations
1. 01GCRI CanadaStart · Canadian not-for-profit, OntarioLead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation.
2. 02GCRI USStart · A separate organisationGCRI’s United States institution, with its own legal identity and responsibilities.
02 Secretariat and office
1. 03Consortium SecretariatStep · GCRI CanadaCoordinates the programme and routes correspondence to the regional and country desks.
2. 04Universe technical officeStep · GCRIScoping, qualification, the Core build, exercise control, evidence capture and closeout.
03 Roles of record
1. 05Standards SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaGCRI Canada is Secretariat and publisher of record of the Nexus Standards.
2. 06Academy issuer of recordRecord · GCRI CanadaNo credential is issued until the method, signing key and revocation path are on record.
3. 07Reports publisherRecord · GCRIGCRI publishes Reports. The Global Risks Forum (GRF) authorises publication at G6.
04 Limit
1. 08Never regulates, certifies, licenses or approvesGate · GCRIFindings carry their methods and uncertainty. GCRI decides for no one.
2. 09Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.

GCRI · GCRI Canada · GCRI USAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.

05Shared services

Services GCRI Canada provides, under written agreements.

As global contracting party, GCRI Canada offers GCRI US the same support it offers the consortiums. Listing an area does not mean that an agreement for it has been executed.

Legal

Contracting and policies

Standard agreements, terms and policies, and the legal register every deployment inherits.

Platform

Operations and security

Foundry operations, identity, tenant isolation, access reviews and vulnerability disclosure.

Programme

Secretariat and reports

Programme records, calendars, correspondence routing, capacity building and the publication process.

06Publisher

Who is responsible for this website.

GCRI Canada is the controller under the privacy notice of therisk.global and is responsible for its publication. Pages about GCRI US are prepared with GCRI US, and content that speaks for GCRI US alone says so. Enquiries are used to answer them and keep a record. They are never shared with The Global Risks Forum or The Global Risks Alliance, which publish their own notices. The view from the other side: GRA’s role in the Consortium. See GCRI Canada and GCRI US.

07Questions

Questions and answers.

Why does GCRI have two organisations?

GCRI works in Canada and the United States, and each organisation holds its own legal identity and responsibilities in its jurisdiction while carrying one institutional mandate.

Does a GCRI status apply to both organisations?

Statuses are published as GCRI’s, in their recorded wording. They do not extend to GRF, GRA or participating institutions.

Who answers an enquiry?

Programme enquiries reach the Secretariat at the contact form. Enquiries for GCRI US alone can go to the contact form.

What happens if the two organisations disagree?

Each decides within its own authority, and neither can bind the other. Where both are party to the same work, the written agreement sets out how a disagreement is raised and resolved, and the record of the outcome is kept.

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