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Record W1572565470

Symes v. Canada

2006· article· fr· W1572565470 on OpenAlex
Melina Buckley

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit · 2006
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMulticultural Socio-Legal Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSupreme courtShadow (psychology)Political scienceWork (physics)Constitutional rightInequalityLawSociologyPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The result in Symes v. Canada is troubling on a number of levels. The failure to challenge the long-standing social norms associated with gender roles and the division of labour in the household and the lack of acknowledgment of the public good of caring for children continue to cast a long shadow on the struggle for women’s equality. At the same time, the tax rules at issue in the case afford only a narrow opportunity to recognize the important connection between women’s inequality and society’s continued failure to ensure that women do not bear unfair burdens as an incident of motherhood. Nor does the claim give rise to a comprehensive solution to the urgent need for publicly funded high-quality childcare and the undervaluing of the work of childcare providers. The case was controversial within the women’s movement in Canada for precisely these reasons. My aim in re-casting Symes was to fully address the substantive equality concerns in this case, which I see as a limited but important opportunity to press for the reconstruction of tax systems and employment systems so that they fully reflect women’s realities as well as men’s. I have a personal interest in Symes because I served as co-counsel with J.J. Camp, Q.C., to the intervenor, the Canadian Bar Association, in the Supreme Court of Canada. It was my first major equality rights case. The Women’s Court of Canada project has provided me with an opportunity to explore my initial sense of outrage at, and long-simmering dissatisfaction with, the majority decision in a concrete, disciplined fashion. More importantly, it was a chance to develop an equality analysis that can discern and address the structural, as opposed to the biological, dimensions of women’s inequality. I took seriously the structure and authoritative voice necessitated by the judgment format. While I wrote with a heightened sense of responsibility for every word, I thoroughly enjoyed the exercise. At a conceptual level, I wanted to explore the role of Canadian courts in advancing social justice through the adjudication of equality rights claims. My starting point is that Canadian governments have repeatedly committed themselves to equality through ratification of international human rights instruments and the adoption and gradual strengthening of domestic human rights legislation. The Canadian Constitution is the cornerstone to this

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.872
Threshold uncertainty score0.894

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it