Remedial Postscripts — Reflections on Carter II, Suspensions, Extensions and Exemptions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Carter, the Supreme Court of Canada declared unconstitutional the absolute criminal prohibition on medical assistance in dying but suspended its declaration for 12 months to allow time for Parliament and the provincial legislatures to respond to the decision. In part because of the intervening federal election, Parliament was unable to pass a response to Carter in time and, prior to the expiry of the suspension, applied for a six-month extension. Carter II was the Court’s decision on the extension application — and on the issue of whether exemptions should be granted from the temporarily valid law (1) within Quebec having regard for the coming into force of Quebec’s law governing medical assistance in dying; and (2) outside of Quebec for individuals who met the criteria in the Carter declaration.
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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 | 0.031 | 0.069 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.036 | 0.054 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".