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+# plates/ca-nu.yml — Nunavut (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada territories).
+# THE OTHER NON-RECTANGULAR CASE, AND THE ONE THAT WENT AWAY AND CAME BACK.
+#
+# ── READ plates/ca-nt.yml FIRST. Nunavut's motor-vehicle law IS the Northwest
+#    Territories' law, continued. The Nunavut Act (S.C. 1993, c. 28) carried
+#    every NWT ordinance and regulation in force on 1 April 1999 into the new
+#    territory as Nunavut law, to be amended or repealed by Nunavut thereafter.
+#    So the Motor Vehicles Act and the Motor Vehicle Registration and Licence
+#    Plate Regulations behind ca-nt.yml are, in their 1999 form, ALSO Nunavut's.
+#
+#    THIS FILE DOES NOT PRETEND THAT IS THE SAME AS HAVING READ NUNAVUT'S OWN
+#    CONSOLIDATION. Every Nunavut legislative and government host refused this
+#    pass: nunavutlegislation.ca returned HTTP 403 to curl with browser headers
+#    on every path tried and 404 through the fetch tool; gov.nu.ca returned 403
+#    to curl and served only a generic search index through the fetch tool; the
+#    Wayback CDX API timed out. Nunavut has amended the inherited regulations
+#    since 1999 and NONE of those amendments were seen. Consequently NO series
+#    in this file cites a Nunavut instrument, no plate TYPE list is asserted
+#    from reg. 8(2) (the NWT list may or may not still be Nunavut's), and every
+#    format claim here is graded secondary. That is the honest ceiling and it is
+#    the file's biggest gap.
+#
+# ── FOUR FACTS THAT ARE WORTH THE FILE ─────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# 1. NUNAVUT'S BEAR-SHAPED PLATE WAS LICENSED, DROPPED, AND RE-LICENSED, AND
+#    THE INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY TRAIL IS PRIMARY AT THE FAR END. The polar-bear
+#    silhouette is a REGISTERED CANADIAN TRADE-MARK of the Government of the
+#    NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — CIPO registration TMA558214, application 1050364,
+#    filed 2000-03-10, registered 2002-02-20, goods "Licence plates", status
+#    LIVE. Nunavut used the shape from 1999 to 2012 under an agreement with the
+#    NWT, went rectangular in 2012, and in 2024 signed a NEW agreement to
+#    return. Nunavut's minister of economic development and transportation,
+#    David Akeeagok, in the Legislative Assembly on 2024-11-05, verbatim as
+#    reported: "Earlier this year, we signed an agreement with the Government of
+#    the Northwest Territories allowing us to create our own bear-shaped plate
+#    without infringing any trademark legalities." A licence plate whose SHAPE
+#    is licensed from another government is, so far as this programme has found,
+#    unique in the world.
+#
+# 2. THE 2012 CHANGE WAS A KNOCK-ON, NOT A NUNAVUT DECISION ABOUT NUNAVUT. The
+#    reported sequence is that the NWT decided to update its own version of the
+#    bear plate and Nunavut, rather than follow, took a new rectangular design.
+#    Recorded because it explains an otherwise inexplicable thirteen-year
+#    interruption in a territory's identity design — and because it means the
+#    NT and NU period boundaries are causally linked and should be verified
+#    together, not independently.
+#
+# 3. THE PLATE PRINTS INUKTITUT SYLLABICS, AND THEY ARE NOT IN THE SERIAL.
+#    The reported 2025 design carries "Nunavut" twice: in Latin letters and in
+#    Inuktitut syllabics — ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, exactly U+14C4 U+14C7 U+1557 U+1466 (CANADIAN
+#    SYLLABICS NU, NA, VU, T). Per the L3 brief's non-Latin rule, this is
+#    recorded as a DESIGN fact with its script and codepoints named, and it does
+#    NOT touch the serial alphabet: the serial is decimal digits. No
+#    `serial_alphabet:` declaration is made for Nunavut, because the dataset-wide
+#    set is correct here — and because declaring one for a legend would be a
+#    category error. NO ASCII FOLDING IS PERFORMED OR IMPLIED (the hr.yml rule).
+#
+# 4. THE INUKSUK IS IN THE SEPARATOR POSITION AND IS NOT A SEPARATOR.
+#    The reported 2025 design places an inuksuk BETWEEN the two three-digit
+#    groups of the serial. That is the Wyoming bucking-horse case exactly
+#    (plates/us-wy.yml: the emblem sits where the separator would be) and the
+#    _meta/separators.yml `never_separator` note anticipates it: the gap holds a
+#    PICTURE. No consumer may treat the inuksuk as a separator character or as
+#    part of the serial. The regexes below spell the position with the sanctioned
+#    separator-only class `[- ]?` (§ 2.8), which is the honest encoding of a
+#    printed gap whose glyph is a symbol rather than punctuation.
+#
+# SOURCING GRADE, STATED ONCE: with no reachable Nunavut instrument and no
+# reachable Nunavut agency page, this file's format and period claims rest on
+# (a) the per-territory encyclopedia article, used as a finding aid and tagged
+# `secondary-wikipedia` per the PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia condition, and (b) one
+# Nunavut news outlet reporting a minister's statement in the Legislative
+# Assembly, which is a secondary report of a primary event and is graded
+# `secondary-dated`. The CIPO trade-mark record is the file's only primary
+# source and it belongs to the Northwest Territories.
+jurisdiction: ca-nu
+authority:
+  name: Motor Vehicles Division, Department of Economic Development and Transportation, Government of Nunavut
+  url: "https://www.gov.nu.ca/en/economic-development-and-transportation/motor-vehicles"
+authority_url_note: >-
+  Recorded as the correct address; it returned HTTP 403 to direct request and a
+  generic index through the fetch tool on 2026-08-02. Nothing in this file is
+  sourced to it.
+binding: vehicle
+binding_note: >-
+  Inherited from the Northwest Territories regime as at 1 April 1999 (Act
+  s. 42(1)-(2): the certificate of registration identifies the plate, and the
+  plate on the vehicle must be the one identified). Nunavut amendments since
+  1999 were not seen; treat as provisional.
+instrument:
+  inheritance:
+    citation: "Nunavut Act, S.C. 1993, c. 28 — the laws of the Northwest Territories in force on 1 April 1999 continued as laws of Nunavut, subject to later amendment or repeal by Nunavut"
+    note: >-
+      The Act's own text was NOT fetched in this pass; the inheritance is stated
+      here as the structural reason the NWT instruments are relevant and is NOT
+      relied on for any format or period claim. Recorded gap.
+  northwest_territories_source_instruments:
+    citation: "Motor Vehicles Act, R.S.N.W.T. 1988, c. M-16 and Motor Vehicle Registration and Licence Plate Regulations, R-054-94 — read in full for plates/ca-nt.yml"
+    caution: >-
+      THESE ARE CITED AS BACKGROUND, NEVER AS NUNAVUT AUTHORITY. The NWT texts
+      served today are post-1999 consolidations carrying amendments (R-034-2013,
+      R-012-2025, R-037-2026 and others) that Nunavut never enacted. Reading
+      today's NWT reg. 8(2) as Nunavut's plate-type list would be exactly the
+      instrument-date error the PRD's § 4 rule exists to prevent.
+    source: "https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf"
+  trademark:
+    citation: "CIPO application 1050364 / registration TMA558214, Government of the Northwest Territories, filed 2000-03-10, registered 2002-02-20, goods 'Licence plates', LIVE"
+    source: "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364  # accessed 2026-08-02"
+  unreachable_hosts_checked:
+    - "https://www.nunavutlegislation.ca/en/consolidated-law/motor-vehicles-act-consolidation-0  # HTTP 403"
+    - "https://www.nunavutlegislation.ca/en/regulations  # HTTP 403"
+    - "https://www.gov.nu.ca/en/economic-development-and-transportation/motor-vehicles  # HTTP 403 direct; generic index via fetch tool"
+    - "http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=gov.nu.ca*  # HTTP 504 gateway timeout"
+
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: asserted-licensed-from-another-government
+  basis: >-
+    UNIQUE IN THE DATASET SO FAR. Nunavut's plate SHAPE is another government's
+    registered trade-mark, used under a bilateral agreement: TMA558214 is owned
+    by the Government of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut's own minister
+    describes the 2024 agreement as what lets Nunavut "create our own
+    bear-shaped plate without infringing any trademark legalities". Whatever
+    Nunavut's posture on its own artwork, the OUTLINE is encumbered by a live
+    third-party registration, and no theory of Crown copyright or edict-of-
+    government reaches it.
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to every graphic element
+    reported on the 2025 plate — the bear outline (encumbered as above), the
+    inuksuk in the serial gap, and the star. As in the Northwest Territories,
+    there is no separable emblem slot to placeholder out: the trade-marked shape
+    IS the plate. The honest render is a schematic rectangle with
+    `design.shape` recorded and the outline omitted.
+  syllabics_note: >-
+    The Inuktitut wordmark ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is a legend, not artwork, and is reproduced here
+    as text with its codepoints because identity IS form for a script (the
+    PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia-row condition 3 principle, applied outside its
+    original context). It is never transliterated in this dataset.
+  sources:
+    - "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364"
+    - "https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/polar-bear-licence-plates-coming-back-to-nunavut/  # 2024-11-08, reporting Minister Akeeagok in the Legislative Assembly 2024-11-05"
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE RETURNED BEAR — current.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: ca-nu-standard-2025
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2025 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999-999"
+      regex: '\A\d{3}[- ]?\d{3}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+      separator_note: >-
+        THE GAP HOLDS AN INUKSUK. The reported design places an inuksuk between
+        the two three-digit groups. Under _meta/separators.yml that symbol is
+        NOT a separator and must never be stripped as one or read as serial; the
+        position is spelled with the sanctioned separator-only class `[- ]?`
+        (PRD-PLATES § 2.8), which is what an authority that prints a picture
+        rather than punctuation earns. `pattern` shows the canonical printed
+        hyphen because the DSL has no way to show a picture, and that is a
+        display convention, not a claim that a hyphen is printed.
+    design:
+      shape: polar-bear-silhouette
+      shape_note: >-
+        Bear-shaped again from 2025, facing LEFT per the secondary description
+        (the Northwest Territories bear faces the other way — a real
+        discriminator between two bear-shaped plates, reported and not
+        verified). The outline is the Northwest Territories' registered
+        trade-mark used under licence; see artwork_risk.
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#0033A0"
+      border: { color: "#F2B21B", hex_basis: observed, description: "yellow border line, reported" }
+      legend_top: "NUNAVUT"
+      legend_top_syllabics:
+        text: "ᓄᓇᕗᑦ"
+        script: "Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Inuktitut)"
+        codepoints: ["U+14C4", "U+14C7", "U+1557", "U+1466"]
+        note: >-
+          Recorded in the original script with codepoints, per the L3 non-Latin
+          rule. NOT part of the serial alphabet and never ASCII-folded. The
+          Latin "Nunavut" and the syllabic ᓄᓇᕗᑦ are the same word twice, not two
+          fields.
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "inuksuk between the serial groups; blue star at upper right; the bear outline itself" }
+      design_basis: secondary
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      PERIOD: the return was ANNOUNCED with a date and ISSUED without one. What
+      is well sourced is the announcement — Minister David Akeeagok told the
+      Legislative Assembly on 2024-11-05 that the bear plate was returning as
+      part of Nunavut's 25th-anniversary programme, that the project began early
+      in 2024 and was expected to be complete in December 2024, and that "we
+      signed an agreement with the Government of the Northwest Territories
+      allowing us to create our own bear-shaped plate without infringing any
+      trademark legalities". The report expressly states no roll-out date had
+      been announced and no design released. `period.start: 2025` therefore
+      comes from the per-territory encyclopedia article's later format row, not
+      from the announcement, and is graded `secondary-wikipedia`. The 2024
+      announcement is the corroborating context and is NOT used as the start
+      year — announcing is not issuing, and this programme has been burned by
+      that conflation before.
+      FORMAT: the reported serial is six digits in two groups of three, i.e. the
+      SAME grammar as the rectangular series it replaces. If that is right, the
+      2025 change is a DESIGN change on an unchanged format — the mirror image
+      of British Columbia's 2025 change, which is a format change on an
+      unchanged design. Both are in this wave, both are 2025, and a schema that
+      conflated base with format could model neither.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): 2025 start, bear shape returning, six-digit serial, yellow border, inuksuk, star, syllabic legend, left-facing bear; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/polar-bear-licence-plates-coming-back-to-nunavut/  # 2024-11-08: the announcement, the 25th-anniversary rationale, the NWT agreement quote, the explicit absence of a roll-out date"
+      - "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364  # the shape is the GNWT's registered trade-mark"
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE RECTANGULAR INTERREGNUM — one series back.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: ca-nu-standard-2012
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2012, end: 2025 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999-999"
+      regex: '\A\d{3}[- ]?\d{3}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+      separator_note: "Six digits in two groups of three, as reported. Separator glyph unstated; separator-only class per § 2.8."
+    design:
+      shape: rectangular
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1A1A1A"
+      legend_top: "NUNAVUT"
+      design_basis: secondary
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      THE THIRTEEN YEARS WITHOUT A BEAR, AND WHY THEY HAPPENED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
+      Reported: rectangular plates with black screened characters from July
+      2012, adopted because the Northwest Territories decided to update ITS
+      version of the bear plate and Nunavut chose a new design rather than
+      follow. So a Nunavut series boundary is caused by a Northwest Territories
+      decision — the two files' 2010-2012 boundaries should be verified
+      together. `shape: rectangular` is stated explicitly rather than left
+      absent, because in this jurisdiction the default cannot be assumed either
+      way and the absence of the key would be ambiguous.
+      Overlaps ca-nu-standard-2025 at the boundary year on the ordinary
+      old-stock reasoning; the two are distinguished by shape and by these notes.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut  # FINDING AID: rectangular July 2012 - 2025, black screened characters, the NWT-update rationale; accessed 2026-08-02"
+
+  - id: ca-nu-standard-1999
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1999, end: 2012 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "99999L"
+      regex: '\A\d{5}[A-Z]\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+    design:
+      shape: polar-bear-silhouette
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#0033A0"
+      design_basis: secondary
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      THE FOUNDING SERIES, AND THE ONE THE 2025 PLATE IS ANSWERING. Reported as
+      embossed blue numerals on a bear-shaped plate from April 1999 — the month
+      Nunavut came into existence — running to 2012, in a five-digit-plus-letter
+      arrangement (`12345N`). Two things make it worth authoring rather than
+      leaving to L4: it is the reason the trade-mark licence exists (the
+      1999-2012 use was, per the 2024 reporting, "under a copyright agreement
+      with the Northwest Territories"), and its terminal letter makes it the
+      only Nunavut serial shape that is unambiguous against both later series.
+      Everything about it is secondary.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut  # FINDING AID: 1999-2012 bear-shaped, embossed blue, 12345N; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/polar-bear-licence-plates-coming-back-to-nunavut/  # 2024-11-08: 'Nunavut distributed polar bear plates from 1999 to 2012 under a copyright agreement with the Northwest Territories'"