Quebec and Alberta: the Clash of Perceptions (2003-2012)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the evolution of the perception of Quebec in Alberta through the analysis of four events: the 2003 Quebec provincial election of Jean Charest and the Liberal party, the Harper government’s 2006 motion recognizing Quebec as a nation, the 2008 parliamentary prorogation and coalition attempt and, lastly, the 2012 Quebec provincial election of Pauline Marois and the Parti québécois. In our qualitative analysis of 202 articles in Alberta’s two principal dailies (the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald), we demonstrate the evolution of the representations of Quebec political life in the Alberta media. We bring to light the ways in which depictions of Quebec became more critical after the 2003 Charest victory. Notably, we reveal that many commentators developed a “hostage thesis” of Quebec; in other words, they affirmed that Quebec behaves as an abductor, holding Canada captive and extorting money from the federal government (and thus from Alberta) to finance its generous social services. We equally demonstrate that the majority of articles concerning Quebec are simply informative or indifferent news stories and that some authors defend or praise Quebec.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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; 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".