Speech of the Honorable A. M. Ross, treasurer of the Province of Ontario, delivered on the 13th February, 1890, in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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Abstract
we claim are a myth, that they are not tangible -that they are not a reality, and that we cannot realize upon them.I think that is about the general statement they make.Let me propound to these hon.gentlemen and these critics a simple problem -if we have no revenue producing assets, where does all this interest come from 1 Tt strikes me that there must be some substance where there is so palpable a shadow.Now, this amount of $355,000 at five per cent, represents interest upon a capital of about $7,000,000.This revenue is not particular as regards this year.During this Parliament the amount we have received has been in 1886, $335,000; in 1887, $324,000; in 1888, $334,000 ; in 1889, $355,000, or an average for the four years of $337,332.Now that represents a capital of over $6,500,000, and if it is claimed that we have no assets, I think the responsibility rests with hon.gentlemen opposite to say where that interest is derived from.The next item is Crown Lands Revenue, which is one of the most important sources of our revenue.Our estimate was $1,100,000 ; our receipts, $1,196,455.or there has been an excess of receipts over the estimate of $96,455.In 1884, Mr. Speaker, the first year I assumed the duties of financial officer of the Government, I undertook to meet the cry that our Crown Lands revenue was gradually diminishing, and that we should soon be brought face to face with direct taxation.At that time I gave figures for eleven years, shewing what the actual revenue from Crown Lands had been, and I shewed that the receipts for the year previous (1883) had been $635,447, or only a few dollars less than the average for the eleven years, and I proved from the figures then given that our revenue was not diminishing, and that we might reasonably look forward to an equal permanent revenue from that source.Now the average for those eleven years was $651,038.It might be interesting, Mr. Speaker, to continue that table, and bring these figures down to the present time, and see what the receipts from Crown Lands have been since that time, 1884, when I made that statement.In 1885, our receipts were $736,864
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".