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Record W236176455

Canadian Experiences in Preventing and Combating Terrorism

2008· article· en· W236176455 on OpenAlexaffabout
Kent Roach

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTerrorismNational securityPolitical scienceLaw enforcementLegislationImmigrationDemocracyLawPatriot ActImmigration lawCriminal lawPublic administrationCriminologySociologyPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Compared with many states, Canada has taken a restrained approach to anti-terrorism since the events of 11 September 2001. This paper briefly recounts Canada’s experience with terrorism to demonstrate that Canada, like many other states, is familiar with terrorism and faces real risks of terrorism in the future. It argues that Canada’s experience with domestic terrorism is of particular interest because it provides an example of how separatist violence can be peacefully channelled into a democratic and legal struggle for self-determination, including secession. The remainder of the paper examines the evolution of Canada’s national security policy since 9/11. First, the article examines the criminal law phase of Canada’s response to 9/11 and the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act at the end of 2001. Second, it examines the immigration law phase of Canada’s response to 9/11, in which Canada relies on immigration legislation as anti-terrorism law. It suggests that threats to freedom are distributed unevenly in post-9/11 Canada, with disproportionate impacts on non-citizens and especially on Muslim and Arab non-citizens, both directly because of immigration law and indirectly, because of enforcement practices and public opinion. Third, the article examines the public safety phase in Canada’s national security policy, which has given greater attention to a broader range of threats to security including diseases and disasters. Finally, it argues in favour of a developing, but still incomplete, fourth phase in Canada’s national security policy that emphasizes review and oversight by both parliament and independent bodies. It holds that independent review is necessary both for ensuring that the state’s national security activities are effective as a response to terrorism, and for ensuring that such measures are not overbroad and do not unjustly catch and grievously harm the innocent.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.149
Threshold uncertainty score0.987

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0390.006
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations3
Published2008
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