Framing Aging Through the State: Canada's Two Senate Committees on Aging, 1963-1966 and 2006-2009
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Abstract
Between 1963-1966 and 2006-2009, the work of two Special Senate Committees on Aging helped to construct a national dialogue around the consequences of population aging. An analysis of the final reports of each Senate committee provides a revealing window into how old age was framed differently as a policy problem in these two eras separated by almost half a century. Although the significance of ageism resonates in each report, the core concerns of the two Senate Committees differ markedly. Poverty among the elderly dominated the research and recommendations of the 1960s committee chaired by Senator David Croll. Its key recommendation – the creation of a Guaranteed Income Supplement for the needy – was quickly implemented in 1967, and subsequently has become one of Canada’s social policy success stories. The 2006-2009 committee, chaired by Senator Sharon Carstairs, focused primarily on promoting healthy aging and a national caregiver strategy. Thus far, its policy significance remains obscure. This article explores the reasons behind the different emphases of each Senate Committee, the framing and impact of their final reports, and the ways in which changing, social economic, and demographic contexts have shaped interactions between citizens and the state around the consequences of population aging. De 1963 a 1966, puis de 2006 a 2009, le travail de deux Comites speciaux d'enquete sur la gerontologie a contribue a etablir un dialogue national sur les consequences du vieillissement de la population. L'analyse des rapports finaux de ces deux comites senatoriaux revele des differences dans la perception de la vieillesse en tant que probleme politique a ces deux epoques separees de pres d'un demi-siecle. Bien que l'ampleur de l'âgisme ressorte de chaque rapport, les principales preoccupations des deux comites senatoriaux sont resolument differentes. La question de la pauvrete chez les personnes âgees dominait les recherches et les recommandations du comite des annees 1960 preside par le senateur David Croll. La recommandation phare de ce comite, a savoir la creation d'un Supplement de revenu garanti pour les personnes dans le besoin, a ete mise en œuvre des 1967 pour devenir par la suite l'une des principales reussites canadiennes en matiere sociale. Le comite de 2006-2009, preside par la senatrice Sharon Carstairs, a principalement axe son travail sur la promotion de la sante des aines et sur une strategie nationale relative aux fournisseurs de soins. A ce jour, sa portee politique reste obscure. Cet article explore les raisons qui se cachent derriere les orientations differentes des comites senatoriaux, l’elaboration et l'impact de leurs rapports finaux, et la maniere dont les evolutions sociales, economiques et demographiques ont faconne les interactions entre les citoyens et l'Etat sur les consequences du vieillissement de la population.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 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".