Bibliographic record
Abstract
EnglishThe phrase has recently emerged in scholarly analysis, in the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and elsewhere as a label for a claimed sociological reality that deserves constitutional recognition. Unfortunately, the phrase has acquired a certain legitimacy before its credentials have received the scrutiny that should be accorded all future visions. This article undertakes that task. It concludes that a full-blown is conceptually incoherent and has limited utility for policy-makers. Any comprehensive attempt to redesign Canada as a multinational polity would come with a heavy price tag. Most significantly, the civic solidarity we now share with fellow citizens would be replaced by a much weaker solidarity with the members of other nations, now viewed as quasi-strangers. The members of Aboriginal nations would be the major losers. While a full-blown response to multinational Canada would be unwise, a carefully modulated, less ambitious response deserves consideration. francaisL’expression «Canada multinational» est recemment apparue dans une analyse scientifique, dans le rapport de la Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones et ailleurs comme une etiquette d’une soi-disant realite sociologique digne d’une reconnaissance constitutionnelle. Malheureusement, l’expression a acquis une certaine legitimite avant meme que ses pouvoirs n’aient fait l’objet de l’etude minutieuse qui devrait etre accordee a toutes les visions futures. L’article porte justement sur cette tâche. L’auteur conclut que l’expression «Canada multinational» est incoherente du point de vue conceptuel et qu’elle presente peu d’utilite pour les responsables des politiques. Toute tentative generale de revoir le Canada en tant que politie multinationale s’avererait onereuse. Tout d’abord, la solidarite civique que nous partageons avec nos concitoyens serait remplacee par une solidarite plus faible avec des membres d’autres nations que nous considerons aujourd’hui comme quasi- etrangeres. Les membres des nations autochtones auraient le plus a perdre. Alors qu’une reaction complete a un Canada multinational n’est pas indiquee, une reaction soigneusement modulee et moins audacieuse merite consideration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".