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This preprint examines the escalating wildfire risk in Canada as a systemic coordination challenge rather than a capacity or resource deficit. Drawing on an Inevitability by Design (IbD) framework, the analysis demonstrates how current wildfire outcomes—characterized by increasing economic losses, reactive response patterns, and expanding exposure—are predictable consequences of fragmented governance, misaligned incentives, and disconnected data systems. The paper situates wildfire dynamics within a broader multi-system context, including forest ecology, land-use planning, infrastructure development, insurance risk, and emergency management. It argues that existing approaches, including proposals for centralized federal control, do not fully address the underlying structural issue: the absence of a continuous, integrated execution architecture linking actors and decisions across scales. To address this gap, the paper introduces the application of the Collaborative Operational Response Integration Network (CORIN) as a coordination architecture capable of integrating prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery into a unified operational system. Through Community Network Integration (CNI) principles, the proposed model enables persistent alignment across federal, provincial, municipal, and private-sector stakeholders, transforming wildfire management from episodic reaction to continuous, data-informed coordination. The analysis is positioned within a global context of increasing climate variability and disaster risk, with implications extending beyond wildfire management to other complex, multi-stakeholder governance challenges. It highlights the potential for coordinated systems approaches to reduce losses, improve resilience, and create new economic opportunities through integrated risk management, infrastructure alignment, and innovation in insurance and land-use systems. This work contributes to an emerging body of practice-oriented systems research focused on operationalizing coordination in real-world settings. It is supported by the Novometrix/CORIN global coordination framework, which enables structured data integration, shared situational awareness, and pilot implementation across jurisdictions and sectors.