{"id":2509,"date":"2019-01-29T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccla.org\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2021-09-22T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:02:08","slug":"governing-by-mercenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.ccla.org\/privacy\/governing-by-mercenary\/","title":{"rendered":"Governing by Mercenary"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb column_margin=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_phone=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius_applies=\u00a0\u00bbbg\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbno-extra-padding\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_phone=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb column_element_spacing=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_link_target=\u00a0\u00bb_self\u00a0\u00bb gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb border_type=\u00a0\u00bbsimple\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_style=\u00a0\u00bbsolid\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_global_section id=\u00a0\u00bb1355″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbfull_width_background\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb column_margin=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_phone=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb top_padding=\u00a0\u00bb4%\u00a0\u00bb constrain_group_1=\u00a0\u00bbyes\u00a0\u00bb bottom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb4%\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius_applies=\u00a0\u00bbbg\u00a0\u00bb class=\u00a0\u00bbpost-links\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb shape_type=\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbno-extra-padding\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_phone=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb column_element_spacing=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_link_target=\u00a0\u00bb_self\u00a0\u00bb gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb border_type=\u00a0\u00bbsimple\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_style=\u00a0\u00bbsolid\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column_text]As with the U.S. over-reliance upon private contractors to wage wars, in Canada, we too have fallen prey to mercenaries. Not soldiers\u00a0of fortune on the battlefield \u2014 at least when a country retains private mercenaries, it\u2019s done as a questionable means of fulfilling a mandate obtained from the elected. But what we\u2019re doing of late in Canada is by-passing the elected, legislatures, city councils, voters.\u00a0We\u2019ve started governing through mercenaries, via an innocent-sounding mechanism called procurement \u2014 as uncovered, discovered and exposed by\u00a0Bianca Wylie<\/a>\u00a0[1].<\/p>\n

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Under governance by mercenaries, no longer do governments put themselves through a controversial debate on health care or education policy regarding how to use students\u2019 and patients\u2019 data. That task gets outsourced to the \u201cbest\u201d private sector bid, by way of a procurement policy that looks watertight on paper but usually gets savaged by a public auditor after it\u2019s too late. This has been the global experience with national and subnational eHealth programs; in the justice sector with digitization projects; and with energy conservation programs. They all involve the Four Horsemen of an annual Public Auditor Apocalypse: technology, privacy, public service delivery and private procurement.<\/p>\n

The concern here, as you\u2019d expect from a civil liberties organization, is not the same as an auditor\u2019s. In fact, the spending scandals mask the more pernicious public wrong of governing by mercenary. Our chief concern at CCLA is not about the money. We care about privacy, due process (data collected and used against a defendant by police without a warrant), data rights infringements involving civil liberties (eg., racial profiling by justice officials), the rule of law and democratic rights (the vacuum caused by silent legislatures gets filled by surveillance capitalism). That a poor bargain for the taxpayers was struck is an age-old political story in Canada, dating back to the building of our railway. Our concern is how mercenaries subvert our constitution.<\/p>\n

The constitutional problem that arises with outsourcing the public interest is manifold but it\u2019s akin to a government retaining Exxon to design a jurisdiction\u2019s energy policy \u2014 will electricity generation be primarily carbon-based or green? \u00a0How much nuclear capacity? Will there be conservation incentives for users? Will transmission and distribution be administered publicly or privately? How does the Crown fulfil its fiduciary duty to indigenous peoples? When governments leave those matters to be decided by Exxon, it has replaced its legislature with a mercenary.<\/p>\n

For example, rather than forcing provincial and local politicians to explain what is to be done with my public school childs\u2019 personal data, Canada\u2019s largest school board simply procured Google, trusting them to manage the privacy and data rights of our children. The same approach was taken in the UK and across Europe with eHealth policies. And in Toronto, it\u2019s happening with the Quayside \u201csmart city\u201d project.<\/p>\n

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Instead of debating, say a data and privacy policy in Cabinet or municipal government, then pitching it through the media, debating it in the legislature, voting on it, recording that vote for the next election, then entrenching it in statute and regulations; instead of all that (aka<\/i>\u00a0democracy), governance through mercenaries is the opposite. The mercenary just gets the job done, and gets paid. There is no vote, no debate, no statute, no regulation, no accountability. There are also new obstacles placed in the way of an NGO like ours to review whatever the mercenary does because, after all, Google is not a public institution.<\/p>\n

This business \u2014 and that\u2019s all procurement is, after all \u2014 creeps into our lives and by-passes democracy particularly in those sectors where the politicians themselves feel incompetent, especially if it involves technology. So the partnering of Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, a Google subsidiary, was a mercenary match made in heaven for the three levels of government that showed up for a public back-patting session in 2017.<\/p>\n

The problem is that mercenaries are, by definition, in it for the money, doing a job that a government is unwilling or unable to get done itself. Because political scandals of megaprojects tend to follow the money, through the public auditor, governments delegate the financial management, and public accountability for that management, to the alleged experts: \u00a0the private sector. That\u2019s all fine and dandy. But the qualitative decisions, the policies themselves, the way the project impacts our human dignity and civil liberties, that activity is supposed to be the function of a democracy. Instead, the politicians can duck democracy altogether if they outsource those decisions to the mercenary. And when anyone questions whether this is constitutionally kosher, the government bootstraps its defence by pointing to its lawyered-up procurement process. In politics, we call that wagging the dog.<\/p>\n

So what? Is governance by mercenary just some obscure lament about process? Yes, and so was the Boston Tea Party. Unlike colonial rule, however, where the indigenous are oppressed by a far-off monarchy, governing by mercenary sees Wall Street as our new sovereign. The covenant between voter and parliament is replaced with a fiduciary duty owed by a corporation to its shareholders to maximize profit.<\/p>\n

The irony is that the show the mercenaries put on is better than what registered political parties pull off during an election.\u00a0There is so much razzle-dazzle to no end, no election, no vote, no accountability. There is no democratic moment therein. Just a glorious PR phantasma, somehow making movie studio campaigns for Oscars look profound, because after all eventually the Academy, whoever they are, votes. With the Sidewalk Labs shuffle, policy affecting our civil liberties gets made, to be sure, but with zero opportunity to hold a publicly elected official to account.<\/p>\n

A glimpse of the Greatest (Undemocratic) Show on Earth can be found on their hypnotizing website page\u00a0Get Involved<\/a>. \u201cPublic Talks \u2026 Roundtables \u2026 Neighbourhood Meetings\u201d galore. \u00a0Baubles and trinkets and jargonized goodies like \u201cPop-up Stations\u201d and \u201cSidewalk Toronto Workshop: 307\u201d (just like \u201c30 Rock\u201d!) and \u201cDesign Jams\u201d and \u201cCivic Labs\u201d and holy cow! A \u201c36-member group of volunteer residents from across the city\u201d deemed the \u201cSidewalk Labs Reference Panel\u201d meeting over \u201csix Saturdays\u201d! (waaa? That\u2019s like \u2026 a lot of meetings, no? Who needs a legislature!?) and some elitist authoritarian stuff if that\u2019s your thing \u2014 \u201cLocal and International Experts\u201d (who needs a Royal Commission? \u2014 and hella heavy graphics \u201cDemos and Prototypes\u201d and a brainy peace corps \u2014 \u201cFellows Program\u201d (who needs a Fulbright Fellowship or a Rhodes Scholarship?) and since corporations can\u2019t kiss babies, a Summer Kids Camp partnered with a trusted charity brand (Google giving back!)\u00a0and<\/i>, just to sweeten the pot for potential critics: \u00a0a \u201cSmall Grants Program\u201d (a shout-out to Joey Smallwood, Duplessis and Tammany Hall). So why not Mirvish\u2019s\u00a0Sidewalk Lab: The Musical<\/i>?<\/p>\n

But no matter expert their communications products, no matter how glowing their brand, no matter how many halos they rent, corporations are required, by law, to fulfil a fiduciary duty \u2014 not a public duty to voters, but a private duty to shareholders to maximize value. \u00a0Look at the\u00a0document<\/a>\u00a0that Sidewalk Labs\u2019 parent company is required by law to disclose to shareholders. It mentions the word \u201cvalue\u201d over 70 times. There are zero references to \u2018public interest\u2019 or any variant. Because this is a business; not a government department or even a charity or NFP. Maximizing shareholder value is always done at the expense of \u2026 well, everything else but profit. The only legal accountability in a mercenary relationship is owed by the company to its shareholders: they are in it for the money [2].<\/p>\n

Governments, on the other hand, are in it for the people. \u00a0Ok, stop giggling. Maybe the motivation is a narcissistic lust for power and misguided fantasy about post-political fame, riches and glory. But throughout our history, the only legal duty held by elected office holders is a public duty. It is literally a crime in Canada for politicians or civil servants to violate that public trust for private gain. There are a plethora of ethics watchdogs, journalists and opposition politicians digging for missteps by governments. Legal access to public information, however flawed, is a given. If the people don\u2019t like what the elected are doing, they throw them out.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what happened when Waterfront Toronto procured the services of Sidewalk Labs to design and implement a \u201csmart\u201d neighbourhood at Quayside in Toronto. This project doesn\u2019t just privatize city infrastructure development, but also the\u00a0policies<\/i>\u00a0to govern the technologies embedded in that infrastructure, and the data that tech will collect. \u00a0At least when Hydro One was privatized, there was a debate and vote in the legislature, resulting in laws and regulations. Some voted against the Wynne Government for that decision. Not so for whatever is happening with our private data on the streets of Toronto. That\u2019s all in the hands of the mercenaries.<\/p>\n

Which politician do you call if you want to find out the masterplan on data management and privacy in the Quayside neighbourhood, or what happens to your information if you live or even visit there? The answer is none; our democratically elected representatives are not in charge. No one gets the heave-ho if this thing gets messed up because no one driving the deal is\u00a0directly accountable to the public. Unless you\u2019re a shareholder, you don\u2019t get a say on this matter. That\u2019s all in the hands of the mercenaries.<\/p>\n

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In their boardrooms, filled with MBAs, lawyers, accountants, analysts, marketing professionals, and sales force leaders, the mercenaries are cooking up what\u2019s to be done with your data. Soon they\u2019ll release\u00a0their<\/i>\u00a0sanitized version of\u00a0their<\/i>\u00a0(profitable) plan, likely to be so technical and voluminous that nobody but they understand it, after which they, the mercenaries, will decide how to exploit stuff about you for their financial gain.<\/p>\n

When did this happen? You missed it. Google\u2019s parent company purchased the keys to our privacy kingdom for a song. Because Waterfront Toronto, the singular legal creature that is accountable to nobody, by law, was in over their heads and got bamboozled by Google negotiators, who brokered a deal that may be undemocratic, unconstitutional, impenetrable, contrary to the public interest, but by god, it will be profitable.<\/p>\n

Mercenaries are not known for acting in the public interest. If they were, they wouldn\u2019t be called mercenaries. They know how to profit. If they\u2019re trying to sound progressive, like Sidewalk Labs, they\u2019ll emphasize long-term profit. \u00a0But they don\u2019t know how to manage a policy that is in the public interest, neither delegates nor trustees they be. They know how to manage a portfolio of companies, like Alphabet Inc., with a view to high risk, high-value return to shareholders. They have zero instincts when it comes to things like public trust, constitutional values and civil liberties. They know how to profit. They are infamously economical with the truth. They don\u2019t talk about \u2018truth,\u2019 in fact. They talk about\u00a0compliance<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Corporate mercenaries are supposed to be shrewd, competitive, successful, winners, capable of selling me the shirt off my back. Today we tend to romanticize morally bankrupt but financially profitable behaviour. So, you ask, why not get those crackerjacks from Google on this job?<\/p>\n

The answer is that those crackerjacks don\u2019t answer to you and me. They\u2019re in it for the money. They already sell the most private, unspeakable information about you, stuff you\u2019d never share with anyone, stuff you\u2019d lock in a diary if that was your thing, selling that info to the highest bidder as if you were a heifer in a cattle call. Now they want to move that data collection offline and onto Toronto\u2019s city streets. And while it\u2019s true that they haven\u2019t done much yet (a point made by a recent\u00a0Toronto Star editorial\u00a0<\/a>suggesting privacy concerns have been overstated), that\u2019s not the point. The point is that once we hand over city building and policy-making to mercenaries, we are going to get cities that profit mercenaries, and policies that we cannot trust because the policy-makers are mercenaries. If it sounds circular, that\u2019s because it is.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the problem with mercenaries. Human dignity is not their\u00a0fort\u00e9<\/i>. Governments and legislatures are invariably maligned and mistrusted, but we prefer them to mercenaries like we prefer even the fallible Mounties to mall cops.<\/p>\n

Do you really trust your constitutional rights to equality, free speech, free association, privacy and liberty to a bunch of mercenaries? That\u2019s for you to answer, but typically citizens prefer having a say in what happens to their stuff. And the only way to have a say is to run it all through a democracy, or at least do that before we hand it all over to the mercenaries. As it is, we may be getting snookered.<\/p>\n

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\n[1]\u00a0See B. Wylie: \u201cThe TTC\u2019s Problematic $500,000 Software License Shows Why Procurement Matters\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/torontoist.com\/2017\/10\/civic-tech-ttcs-problematic-500000-software-license-shows-procurement-matters\/<\/a>, \u201cSmart Communities Need Smart Governance\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/smart-communities-need-smart-governance\/article37218398\/,\u00a0<\/a>\u201cGovernance Vacuums and How Code is Becoming Law\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/www.cigionline.org\/articles\/governance-vacuums-and-how-code-becoming-law<\/a>, \u201cSidewalk Toronto, Procurement Innovation, and Permission to Fail,\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7nly5mz<\/a>, for more see:\u00a0https:\/\/biancawylie.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n[2]\u00a0The IPO letter from Google in 2004 was full of promises to not \u201cbe evil\u201d but also confirmed their legal duties to shareholders: \u201cWe will support selected high-risk, high-reward projects and manage our portfolio of projects.\u2026 We are conscious of our duty as fiduciaries for our shareholders, and we will fulfil those responsibilities.\u201d \u00a0https:\/\/abc.xyz\/investor\/founders-letters\/2004-ipo-letter\/\u00a0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=\u00a0\u00bbin_container\u00a0\u00bb full_screen_row_position=\u00a0\u00bbmiddle\u00a0\u00bb column_margin=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb column_direction_phone=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb scene_position=\u00a0\u00bbcenter\u00a0\u00bb text_color=\u00a0\u00bbdark\u00a0\u00bb text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb row_border_radius_applies=\u00a0\u00bbbg\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb shape_divider_position=\u00a0\u00bbbottom\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb][vc_column column_padding=\u00a0\u00bbno-extra-padding\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_tablet=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_phone=\u00a0\u00bbinherit\u00a0\u00bb column_padding_position=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb column_element_spacing=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb background_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ background_hover_color_opacity=\u00a0\u00bb1″ column_shadow=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_radius=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_link_target=\u00a0\u00bb_self\u00a0\u00bb gradient_direction=\u00a0\u00bbleft_to_right\u00a0\u00bb overlay_strength=\u00a0\u00bb0.3″ width=\u00a0\u00bb1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb tablet_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb phone_text_alignment=\u00a0\u00bbdefault\u00a0\u00bb bg_image_animation=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb border_type=\u00a0\u00bbsimple\u00a0\u00bb column_border_width=\u00a0\u00bbnone\u00a0\u00bb column_border_style=\u00a0\u00bbsolid\u00a0\u00bb][nectar_global_section id=\u00a0\u00bb1461″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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