TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE CONSTITUTION: RE-SETTING THE BOUNDS OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have some potentially important implications for the federal-provincial division of powers over telecommunications. Consolidated Fastfrate Inc. v. Western Canada Council of Teamsters, which established that freight-forwarders are not s. 92(10)(a) undertakings, raises a new question about which level of government has constitutional authority over non-facilities-based telecommunications service providers. At the same time, the line of cases beginning with Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta, which restricted the scope of the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity, means that telecommunications service providers subject to federal jurisdiction are potentially subject to provincial laws in a broader range of circumstances. This article explores how recent case law is redefining the scope of federal authority over telecommunications.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".