Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper reviews the Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence from the past year. During the 2011-2012 term, the Supreme Court of Canada issued two Charter decisions outside the criminal procedure context, Canada (Attorney General) v PHS Community Services Society (“Insite”) and S.L. v Commission scolaire des Chenes. A third decision, Dore v Barreau du Quebec, dealt with issues arising from the intersection of administrative and constitutional law. The Court also heard four cases raising division of powers issues: Insite, Reference re Securities Act (the “Securities Reference”), Quebec (Attorney General) v Canada (Human Resources and Social Development), and Tessier Ltee v Quebec (Commission de la sante et de la securite du travail). It is difficult to suggest with confidence that any significant trends emerge from the decisions issued during the 2011-2012 term. It is perhaps more helpful to situate each of the cases within the broader trajectories of the jurisprudence. At the very least, however, it is possible to identify certain tendencies or issues that appear to be preoccupying the Court. These include the issue of the claimant’s evidentiary burden in Charter cases; cooperative federalism; and a concern that the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity remain confined.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".