The Wisdom of the elders: a round table on reform of the House of Commons
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Respect for the ideas of elders is one characteristic of a healthy community. On May 3, 2006 the Library of Parliament in co-operation with the Canadian Association of Former Members of Parliament organized a round table bringing together some individuals with a great deal of experience as legislators. The panel was asked to suggest at least three ways the House of Commons could be improved. As one might expect there was not unanimity or even consensus on what should be done to reform Parliament. But it was a very stimulating conversation for those who believe in he need for procedural reform. Patrick Boyer was a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from 1984-1993. He has served as parliamentary secretary to a number of ministers including External Affairs, National Defence, Industry, Science and Technology and Consumer and Corporate Affairs. Don Boudria was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1984 to 2004. He is a former minister, Government House Leader and Chair of the Standing Committee on Procedure and Elections. Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral was a Bloc Quebecois Member of the House of Commons from 1993 to 2004. She became the first woman to serve as Whip of the Official Opposition. Lorne Nystrom was an NDP member of the House of Commons from 1968 to 2004 except for an interval from 1993-1997. He held a number of positions including Deputy House Leader and Deputy Whip. Bill Blaikie was first elected to the House of Commons in 1979. He was a member of Special Committee on Standing Orders and Procedure and the Special Committee on Reform of the House of Commons. He was chosen Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 2006. He served as Chairman for the discussion . The following is an abridged transcript of the session. The full transcript is available from the Library of Parliament.
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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 | 0.020 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.020 | 0.017 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.002 |
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".