Peaceful, tolerant and orderly? A feminist analysis of discourses of ‘Canadian values’ in Canadian Foreign Policy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Discourses of Canadian values have been asserted with frequency in Canadian foreign policy documents and public pronouncements. Such statements frequently represent Canada as a peaceful, tolerant, and orderly liberal nation, free of inequalities. This article argues that this discourse has several effects. First, it serves to obscure on‐going histories of marginalization in Canada that occur along the lines of gender, race, disability, sexuality, and class. Second, this discourse represents Canada as heroic and altruistic in its conduct overseas. This can be disrupted through feminist and anti‐racist scrutiny of questionable actions abroad, including those undertaken in Somalia and Afghanistan. Third, discourses of Canadian values produce a narrative of “Canada the good” that is implicated in the governance of Canadians. Such discourses incite Canadians to autonomously self‐govern in accordance with liberal citizenship, to live up to the standards of liberal behaviour set out in discourses of Canadian values. The article concludes with an exploration of the implications of this analysis.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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 it