CanuckDUCK exists because we believe Canadian communities deserve civic infrastructure built for contemporary challenges. Infrastructure that acknowledges the attacks we've discussed. That implements layered defenses appropriate to different contexts. That prioritizes resilience over false promises of invulnerability. That treats transparency as strength. That centers human community rather than replacing it with mechanisms.
We don't claim to have solved these problems. We claim to be working on them honestly—publishing our thinking, inviting scrutiny, learning from failure.
The systems we build will have vulnerabilities. We'll discover some before attackers do and some after. We'll fix what we can and adapt to what we can't. We'll be transparent about imperfection because we believe you deserve to know what you're participating in.
That's the offer. Not perfect democracy—impossible anyway—but democratic infrastructure built with open eyes about what it's up against.
The alternative is leaving collective decision-making to systems that pretend these problems don't exist. We've seen how that goes.
Let's try something better.