Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada by Janice Gross Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy, (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007); xiii + 165 pp. Paper ISBN: 1-55458-012-9, ISBN 13: 978-1-55458-012-5. Numbers in parentheses are page references to this work, except where indicated.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collection of essays originated in an article for the Literary Review of Canada by Janice Gross Stein, which prompted replies from two journalists, John Ibbitson and Haroon Siddiqui. The present volume contains essays by three political scientists, Stein, David Robertson Cameron, and John Meisel, three journalists, Ibbitson, Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy, and a philosopher, Will Kymlicka, with an introduction by Frank Iacobucci, former Justice of the Supreme Court. Since the volume has no editor, it is unclear who is responsible for the title, which holds out the promise of an in-depth exploration of problems in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter embraces both multiculturalism and rights. Are these really uneasy partners? In fact all the contributors are both pro-Charter and pro-multiculturalism. The uneasy partners turn out to be religion and equality, hardly a novel thesis. Uneasy Partners would have been much improved by the presence of anti-multiculturalists and non-liberal pro-multiculturalists. The three journalists do as much as could be expected of them; but the three political scientists do a mediocre job. When one considers how many political theorists have written on Canadian multiculturalism, surely a university press could have done a better job than this.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| 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".