Every field program eventually meets this arithmetic. Covering a riding by classic canvass means a two-person team at every door. At the data room's stated assumptions — 1.9 electors per door, 25 doors per pair-hour, two-hour shifts — covering all of BEY once costs 864 pair-shifts. Scarborough Southwest: 913 more. No volunteer program either riding has ever seen fields that. But the four priority zones — the canyon itself — cost about 224. That is the whole strategic argument, drawn below.
Why pods beat blankets — in 200 words
A blanket canvass treats every door as equal, so its cost is the whole riding: 864 shifts in BEY alone, before a single revisit. A pod model refuses that premise. The data room shows participation is not evenly missing — it is concentrated in four advance zones (608, 603, 602, 600), in towers where one building is one poll. Classic door-knocking covers exactly those 224 shifts — a real number a volunteer program can field in a two-week window. Everything beyond the priority zones moves through structures that don't scale with door count: partner institutions that already hold trust (the data room joins every tower to its three nearest doors), pods of neighbours who each carry their own building or street, and the online layer mapped in the media registry. The blanket buys breadth it cannot staff; the pod buys depth where the canyon actually is, and lets the rest of the riding be reached by the people who already live there. This is doctrine A6 as arithmetic: the active few carry the field — recruit them where civic capacity is thick, deploy presence where participation is thin. The math is not the strategy's decoration; it is its proof.