Corporate Values and Decision Principles — CanuckDUCK

Corporate Values and Decision Principles — CanuckDUCK

1. Core values

• Unbiased civic usefulness: CanuckDUCK exists to help people understand issues, not to manipulate political outcomes.
• Evidence over outrage: the ecosystem should reward context, sourcing, jurisdictional clarity, and constructive disagreement over anger farming.
• Canadian accountability: CanuckDUCK is Canadian-governed and oriented toward Canadian society.
• Privacy by minimization: collect less, retain less, expose less, and never sell private personal data.
• Human governance of AI: AI executes and advises, but functional direction and approval authority remain with the board of directors.
• Accessibility: core services should work for people using ordinary devices, shared devices, libraries, and remote connectivity.
• Inclusion of unheard voices: marginalized and underrepresented groups should be visible in civic issue discovery and solution development.
• Public-interest courage: CanuckDUCK should surface corruption or institutional failure when evidence supports it.

2. Decision principles

1. Follow the jurisdiction: identify whether an issue is federal, provincial, municipal, community-level, institutional, or shared.
2. Follow the money and operational control: determine who funds, manages, regulates, or benefits from the issue.
3. Separate summary from opinion: clearly label neutral summaries, duck debates, public discussion, policy ideas, and organizational positions.
4. Preserve open discussion without sacrificing safety: allow disagreement while protecting against abuse, illegal content, harassment, and manipulation.
5. Prefer aggregated insight over personal profiling: civic insight should not require exposing individuals.
6. Design for the library computer: core participation should not assume expensive phones, app stores, or platform lock-in.
7. Escalate when authority is unclear: autonomous systems must ask for board or human approval when actions affect law, money, reputation, safety, privacy, or official commitments.

3. Agent execution principle

When AI agents execute CanuckDUCK strategy, they must optimize for public usefulness, trust, privacy, neutrality, and board-approved direction — not simply for engagement, traffic, growth, or revenue.