Speech of F.W. Glen, M.P., on the syndicate contract, delivered in the House of Commons, Ottawa, on Tuesday, January 25th, 1881.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although a new member of the House, I cannot allow this discussion to close without entering my protest against the confirmation of the contract for the construction of the Canada Pacific Railway, now upon the table-believing as I do that its confirmation will seriously impede the development and settlement of the North-West Territories, and that the contract grants privileges and exemptions which will tend to destroy the peace, well- being, and prosperity of those who may settle in that vast region.I assume, Sir, that the statements made by the Honorable Minister of Railways, and the Right Honorable leader of the Government, as to the character and quantity of the agricultural lands of the North-West are correct.I also assume that the Right Honorable leader of the Government was justified in giving his official sanction to the land regulations issued during the year 1879, fixing the price of the lands lying near the line of the proposed railway at five dollars per acre.If the Right Honorable gentleman was justified in demanding fromnew settlers five dollars an acre for the lands, prior to the construction of the railway, it is the highest possible evidence we can have that these lands are of very great value f >r agricultural purposes or, in other words, agricultural lands of a very high order, and of very great commercial value, provided the pro- duce of these lands can be transported to market upon such terms as to secure to the producers a fair and just reward for their labor and capital.The cost of railway transportation is of vital importance to those who intend to settle in the North-West territories.The commercial value of the land for settlement is wholly and entirely dependent upon the cost of transporting agricultural products from the North-West to Liverpool, which is the ultimate market for the surplus of this continent.If the cost of transporting a bushel of wheat from Winnipeg to Liverpool had been as much in 1880 as it was in 1873, wheat could not have been profitably grown in the North-West territories, and, therefore, the commercial value of the land in 1880 would not have been greater than in 1878.Since 1873, however, a great revolution has taken place in the cost of building railways, the cost of maintaining the road-bed, in the cost of operating railways, and in the value of money.Such a reduction has been made, that, commercially speaking, so far as distance is concerned, Winnipeg is nearer Liverpool to-day than Chicago was in 1873.In 1873, the average cost for moving a ton of freight 100 miles by the Boston and Albany.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.069 | 0.020 |
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".