Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: Following its near demise in 1982, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) adopted new goals and processes designed to increase satisfaction and deliver concrete results to its member municipalities. Over time, the FCM assumed the role of primary interlocutor or broker, establishing a bridge between federal intentions and local government needs and playing a central role in the aggregation, definition, articulation and advocacy of local government issues at the federal level. These FCM actions, in conjunction with the significant improvements in the financial position of the federal government, resulted in significant monetary transfers from the federal to local governments and large increases in FCM membership. At the close of 2005, the FCM was poised to achieve its ultimate goal of establishing a joint federal‐local mechanism for policy development as part of the New Deal. However, the election of the Harper government in 2006 led to a change in the federal position, leaving the FCM in a position remnminiscent of 1982 and a way forward that was suddenly less clear. While continuing to lobby strongly for fiscal transfers to municipalities, the FCM is assuming a broader role of filling the research void on local issues at the federal level. Sommaire : Après avoir pratiquement disparu en 1982, la Fédération canadienne des municipalités (FCM) a adopté de nouveaux objectifs et processus afin d'accroître la satisfaction de ses municipalités membres et de leur fournir des résultats concrets. Au fil des ans, la FCM a assumé le rôle de principal interlocuteur ou représentant, en servant d'intermédiaire entre les intentions du gouvernement fédéral et les besoins des administrations municipales et en jouant un rôle majeur dans le regroupement, la définition, la formulation et la défense des questions relatives aux administrations municipales à l'échelle fédérale. Ces mesures prises par la FCM, de concert avec les améliorations importantes de la situation financière du gouvernement fédéral, ont eu pour résultat d'importants transferts monétaires du gouvernement fédéral aux administrations municipales et de fortes augmentations d'adhésion à la FCM. À la fin de 2005, la FCM était sur le point d'atteindre son but ultime qui était d'établir un mécanisme conjoint fédéral‐municipal pour l'élaboration de politiques, dans le cadre du Nouveau pacte pour les municipalités canadiennes. Cependant, l'élection du gouvernement Harper en 2006 a entraîné un changement dans la position du gouvernement fédéral, laissant la FCM dans une position très similaire à celle de 1982 et avec des perspectives d'avenir soudainement plus obscures. Tout en continuant à exercer de fortes pressions en faveur des transferts fiscaux aux municipalités, la FCM assume un rôle plus vaste en comblant le vide dans la recherche sur les questions municipales à l'échelle fédérale.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".