Child Care and the Harper Agenda: Transforming Canada's Social Policy Regime
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Abstract
This article examines the changing child care policy landscape in Canada, as indicative of the fundamental shift that is happening in Canada’s social policy regime under the Harper Conservative government. It begins by reviewing the policy choices made by the current federal government in the area of early learning and child care, including the cancellation of the Bilateral Agreements on Early Learning and Child Care and their replacement with the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and the Child Care Spaces Initiative (CCSI). It then argues that through these approaches social reproduction, federalism, and advocacy have been recast to promote familialism, residualism and exclusion in Canada’s welfare state. As a result, rights related to gender equality, social citizenship and representation have been seriously undermined. Cet article examine le contexte changeant des politiques sur la garde des enfants, comme etant representatif d’un deplacement fondamental du regime de politique sociale au Canada, qui a eu lieu sous le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper. Les choix de politiques sociales qui ont ete pris par le present gouvernement federal relies a la garde des enfants et a l’education de la petite-enfance, incluant l’annulation des accords federaux-provinciaux en matiere d’apprentissage et de garde de jeunes enfants, remplaces par la prestation universelle pour la garde d’enfants (PUGE), et l’initiative sur les places en garderie (IPG). Je propose qu’a travers ces approches, la reproduction sociale, le federalisme et la mobilisation ont ete re-imagine afin de promouvoir le familialisme, le residualisme, et l’exclusion dans l’etat providence canadien. Ceci a eu comme resultat que les droits relies a l’egalite des genres, la citoyennete sociale et la representation, ont ete gravement compromise. Mots-clefs : Politique de la garde des enfants; analyse de politique sociale; egalite entre les genres; democratie.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".