Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author reviews the 11 constitutional decisions released by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2013. She makes three main points. First, the decisions are mainly unanimous. The great majority also upholds the existing law, excepting the dramatic decision of the Court to strike down three sections of the Criminal Code in the Bedford challenge to Canada’s criminal laws around the sale of sex. Second, two cases in which the Court was not unanimous, Quebec v. A and Manitoba Metis, engaged with critical and difficult constitutional questions, namely, the scope of section 15 equality protection and Canada’s constitutionalized relationships with Indigenous peoples. The fissures revealed in these cases will almost certainly prove significant in the future. Finally, 2013 was an unusual year in which the Supreme Court became embroiled in some dramatic and unprecedented tussles with the elected government, over Prime Minister Harper’s attempt to appoint Mr. Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court. These disputes continued and expanded through the early part of 2014 and Canadians were faced with the spectacle of the Prime Minister’s Office casting aspersions on the ethics of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The author suggests that the aftermath of 2013 might be a new era in the relationship between our highest court and our federal government, one that might even knock the dust off section 33 of the Charter.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".