Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929–1960
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929–1960, Christopher MacLennan, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 234. This is an excellent and timely book, providing a review of the pivotal historical events and the actions of civil libertarians and parliamentarians that resulted in the statutory Canadian Bill of Rights in 1960. Indeed, the true value of this book is that it suggests the limited nature of the present debate on judicial power and of the tendency to see the Charter of Rights as simply an institutional dialogue between the Supreme Court and the Parliament of Canada. MacLennan's work reminds us that the entrenchment of the Charter cannot be understood without considering the historical legacy of the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights, and the important struggles of interest groups, civil liberties organizations, academics such as F.R. Scott and members of Parliament such as John Diefenbaker, all of whom encountered strong resistance to the idea of a national bill of rights from the Liberal governments of Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 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".