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+# plates/ca-sk.yml — Saskatchewan (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+#
+# ── THE HONEST HEADLINE: THIS IS THE THINNEST FILE IN THE CANADA-WEST GROUP,
+#    AND THE REASON IS INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT SASKATCHEWAN.
+#
+# Two things had to be reached to source Saskatchewan properly and neither was:
+#
+#   * THE STATUTE AND REGULATIONS. Saskatchewan publishes its consolidated law
+#     through publications.saskatchewan.ca, whose document IDs are only
+#     discoverable through a JavaScript front end. The REST API was probed
+#     directly (`/api/v1/products?...`, `/api/v1/products/{id}`,
+#     `/api/v1/products/{id}/formats/{fid}/download`, `/api/v1/freelaw/...`)
+#     and every path either 404s or rejects the parameter shape; the legacy
+#     qp.gov.sk.ca statute paths no longer resolve; the pubsask blob-storage
+#     paths 404. No Saskatchewan statute or regulation was read in this pass.
+#     WebSearch was unavailable (session budget exhausted at the first call),
+#     so ID discovery by search was not possible either.
+#   * SGI'S OWN PAGES. sgi.sk.ca is a Liferay single-page application: the
+#     licence-plate and personalized-plate URLs return HTTP 200 with a shell
+#     containing navigation only, and no plate rules in the served HTML.
+#
+# What WAS reached is worth having and is the spine of this file: two
+# Government of Saskatchewan NEWS RELEASES, served in full, dated, attributed,
+# and quoting the responsible minister. They settle the single-plate question
+# to the DAY. Everything about the SERIAL, by contrast, is secondary.
+#
+# ── THE ONE HARD FACT, VERBATIM ────────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# Government of Saskatchewan, "SASKATCHEWAN MOVES TO A SINGLE PLATE ON JUNE
+# 30TH", 28 June 2004:
+#   "Saskatchewan's new, single licence plate system will take effect on
+#    June 30th."
+#   "Because the legislative and administrative changes required were completed
+#    faster than expected, the single plate system is being introduced a month
+#    earlier than previously announced," Minister responsible for SGI Maynard
+#    Sonntag said.
+#   "Starting June 30th, SGI will issue a single plate on transactions requiring
+#    a new plate. On existing registrations, customers will have the choice to
+#    remove their existing front plate."
+#   "Alberta, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward
+#    Island and the three territories use single licence plates."
+#
+# Three things that release gives us that no encyclopedia table can. (1) A
+# CHANGEOVER DATE, 30 June 2004, from the government that made it. (2) The
+# TRANSITION MECHANICS: new plates single from that date, existing registrations
+# grandfathered with an OPTION to remove the front plate — so Saskatchewan front
+# plates remained lawfully in service indefinitely after 2004, and a
+# two-plate Saskatchewan vehicle is not evidence of a pre-2004 registration.
+# (3) A CROSS-JURISDICTION ROLL-CALL that independently corroborates the
+# single-plate finding in plates/ca-ab.yml, plates/ca-yt.yml, plates/ca-nt.yml
+# and plates/ca-nu.yml — cited in each of those files, from outside.
+#
+# ── PERIOD DISCIPLINE, STATED UP FRONT ─────────────────────────────────────
+# Every serial-format claim below is graded `secondary-wikipedia` under the
+# PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia row's tagging condition. None of them is traced to a
+# Saskatchewan instrument or to SGI, because neither was reachable. A verifier
+# with working access to publications.saskatchewan.ca should treat every such
+# grade as an open item; they are enumerated in the dossier.
+jurisdiction: ca-sk
+authority:
+  name: Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI), as administrator of the Saskatchewan Auto Fund and the driver and vehicle registry
+  url: "https://sgi.sk.ca/personalized-plates"
+authority_url_note: >-
+  sgi.sk.ca serves a JavaScript application; this URL returns HTTP 200 with no
+  substantive body text. It is recorded as the correct address. NOTHING in this
+  file is sourced to it.
+binding: vehicle
+binding_note: >-
+  Not established from any Saskatchewan instrument in this pass. Saskatchewan
+  registers vehicles through SGI and issues plates against the registration; the
+  transfer rules were not read. Recorded gap.
+instrument:
+  status: not-read
+  note: >-
+    NEGATIVE FINDING, recorded so nobody repeats the hunt. The Traffic Safety
+    Act (S.S. 2004, c. T-18.1) and its vehicle-registration regulations are the
+    instruments that would carry Saskatchewan's plate law. Neither was obtained:
+    see the header for the exact paths probed on publications.saskatchewan.ca,
+    pubsaskdev.blob.core.windows.net and qp.gov.sk.ca, all of which failed on
+    2026-08-02.
+  news_releases:
+    - citation: "Government of Saskatchewan, 'SASKATCHEWAN MOVES TO A SINGLE PLATE ON JUNE 30TH', 28 June 2004"
+      source: "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # full body served and read 2026-08-02"
+    - citation: "Government of Saskatchewan, 'SASKATCHEWAN LICENCE PLATES ARE GOING STICKERLESS', 2 October 2012"
+      source: "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2012/october/02/saskatchewan-licence-plates-are-going-stickerless  # headline and date confirmed by direct fetch 2026-08-02; the body did not extract from the served markup, so ONLY the headline claim is used"
+  licence: "saskatchewan.ca news releases are Government of Saskatchewan publications. Facts extracted, quoted for the operative sentences, not reproduced wholesale."
+
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: unresearched-crown-copyright-presumed
+  basis: >-
+    Crown copyright under s. 12 of the Copyright Act (Canada) is the default and
+    no Saskatchewan disclaimer was found — nor could one be looked for properly,
+    since neither the Queen's/King's Printer nor SGI was reachable in a form
+    that serves text. Recorded as UNRESEARCHED. Note one structural difference
+    from every other jurisdiction in this group: Saskatchewan's plate authority
+    is a CROWN INSURANCE CORPORATION with commercial operations, as British
+    Columbia's is, which makes the "edict of government" argument weaker for
+    SGI's own materials than for a statute.
+  emblem_rule: "PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to the wheat device reported at the centre of the standard base."
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # the province's own publication of the plate regime"
+
+display_rules:
+  count: >-
+    ONE plate since 30 June 2004, with the pre-2004 front plate lawfully
+    retained at the owner's option. Verbatim: "Starting June 30th, SGI will
+    issue a single plate on transactions requiring a new plate. On existing
+    registrations, customers will have the choice to remove their existing front
+    plate." CONSEQUENCE A CONSUMER MUST NOT MISS: because removal was OPTIONAL
+    rather than mandatory, a Saskatchewan vehicle carrying two plates is not
+    thereby datable, and the 2004 boundary is a boundary in ISSUANCE, not in
+    what is on the road.
+  before_2004: "Front and rear plates were required. The instrument that required them was not read (see instrument.status)."
+  validation_sticker: >-
+    Saskatchewan went STICKERLESS: Government of Saskatchewan news release of
+    2 October 2012, headline verbatim, "SASKATCHEWAN LICENCE PLATES ARE GOING
+    STICKERLESS". Only the headline is relied on — the release body did not
+    extract from the served markup — so the claim carried here is exactly that
+    and no more: from around that date a Saskatchewan plate stops carrying a
+    validity decal. The effective date is NOT asserted.
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # single-plate date and transition mechanics, quoted verbatim"
+    - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2012/october/02/saskatchewan-licence-plates-are-going-stickerless  # headline only"
+
+common:
+  separator_note: >-
+    The Saskatchewan serial is universally rendered as two groups of three with
+    a printed gap (`123 ABC`). No Saskatchewan source states a separator glyph.
+    Under PRD-PLATES § 2.8 the position is spelled with the sanctioned
+    separator-only class, and `pattern` shows the canonical printed space.
+  dimensions_note: >-
+    NEGATIVE FINDING. No dimension is sourced. The reported 12 x 6 in /
+    30 x 15 cm North American convention is recorded here and asserted nowhere;
+    `design.plate` is absent from every series.
+  alphabet_note: >-
+    THE ONE GENUINELY INTERESTING SERIAL FACT ABOUT SASKATCHEWAN IS AN ALPHABET
+    WIDENING, AND IT IS SECONDARY. The per-province encyclopedia article reports
+    that letters I, O, Q, U and V were not used until 2009, when I, Q, U and V
+    were added to current serials — leaving O as the only permanent exclusion.
+    If that is right, a Saskatchewan serial containing I, Q, U or V is
+    2009-or-later, which is a genuine era signal and the file's most useful
+    parse fact. It is NOT encoded in any `regex_strict`, because this programme
+    only ships a strict twin where the AUTHORITY states the alphabet (contrast
+    plates/ca-bc.yml, where ICBC states it in terms). Carried as
+    `charset.excluded` with its secondary grade instead.
+
+series:
+
+  - id: ca-sk-standard
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1998 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999 LLL"
+      regex: '\A\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{3}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+      charset:
+        excluded: ["O"]
+        excluded_before_2009: ["I", "O", "Q", "U", "V"]
+        notes: >-
+          Secondary only; see common.alphabet_note. The two lists are recorded
+          separately rather than merged because the DIFFERENCE between them is
+          the era signal, and merging would destroy it.
+      progression: "not published"
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#00693E"
+      legend_top: "SASKATCHEWAN"
+      legend_bottom: "Land of Living Skies"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "screened wheat graphic, centre" }
+      material: "aluminum (reported)"
+      design_basis: secondary
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      NUMERALS FIRST, LETTERS SECOND, REPORTED FROM MAY 1998 — the inverse of
+      the arrangement it replaced, which is the whole change. Both the
+      arrangement and the 1998 date come from the per-province encyclopedia
+      article's format table, tagged accordingly; no SGI or Saskatchewan source
+      was reachable to confirm either. The same table lists a further row
+      beginning "early 2009" with the SAME arrangement, which on inspection is
+      an ALPHABET change and not a format change (see common.alphabet_note) —
+      so it is recorded as a charset fact inside this series rather than minted
+      as a second series, on the PRD-PLATES § 2.3 test (own series iff format OR
+      design OR period differs; a charset widening inside one arrangement is
+      none of the three).
+      THE STRONGEST THING IN THIS RECORD IS NOT THE FORMAT. It is the display
+      regime: single plate since 30 June 2004, stickerless since around October
+      2012, both from the province's own releases. A current Saskatchewan
+      vehicle therefore shows ONE plate carrying NO validity marker — the same
+      end state Idaho reached in July 2026 by abolishing both its sticker and
+      its replacement cycle, arrived at eleven years earlier by a different
+      route.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Saskatchewan  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): 123 ABC reported from May 1998, the 2009 alphabet widening, the green-on-white wheat design, 'Land of Living Skies', aluminium; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # the single-plate regime this series is issued under"
+
+  - id: ca-sk-standard-1977
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1977, end: 1998 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+      charset:
+        excluded: ["I", "O", "Q", "U", "V"]
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#00693E"
+      legend_top: "SASKATCHEWAN"
+      design_basis: secondary
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      THE "ONE SERIES BACK". Three letters then three numerals, reported from
+      1977 to May 1998, and issued under the TWO-PLATE regime that ran until
+      30 June 2004 — so this series' vehicles are the ones the 2004 release's
+      grandfathering clause is about. Entirely secondary. Everything before
+      1977 (a numeric `12-345` reported from 1923 and shorter numerics before
+      that) is NOT authored: one unfootnoted table is not enough to mint
+      decades of series.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Saskatchewan  # FINDING AID: ABC 123 reported 1977 - May 1998; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2004/june/28/saskatchewan-moves-to-a-single-plate-on-june-30th  # the two-plate regime in force throughout this series"
+
+  - id: ca-sk-personalized
+    class: personalized
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 1998 }
+    period_evidence: not-established
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLLLLL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-obtained
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#00693E"
+      design_basis: secondary
+    notes: >-
+      AUTHORED AS AN EXISTENCE CLAIM ONLY, AND MARKED AS SUCH. SGI serves a page
+      at /personalized-plates (HTTP 200), so the programme exists; its rules —
+      character count, permitted characters, eligible classes, the design
+      catalogue — are behind a JavaScript front end that serves no body text,
+      and no Saskatchewan instrument was reachable to supply them. `period.start`
+      is a schema-satisfying floor tied to the current standard series and is
+      graded `not-established`: it must not be read as a claim. The regex is an
+      unbounded catch-all because Saskatchewan publishes no length bound that
+      was reachable — contrast plates/ca-yt.yml, whose regulation caps
+      personalized plates at six characters, and plates/ca-bc.yml, whose agency
+      bulletin caps every plate type at six.
+    sources:
+      - "https://sgi.sk.ca/personalized-plates  # HTTP 200, JavaScript shell; existence of the programme only"