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Record W3119664001 · doi:10.4236/jss.2021.91001

Access to Justice: Recommended Reforms to the Ontario Justice System Using the Green Energy Act as an Example

2021· article· en· W3119664001 on OpenAlex
Alan Whiteley, Anne Dumbrille, John L. Hirsch

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Journal of Social Sciences · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEnvironmental law and policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatuteEconomic JusticeGovernment (linguistics)Political sciencePublic administrationModernization theoryLawBusiness

Abstract

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Methods: A document was prepared and sent by a lawyer, Alan Whiteley, to Ontario government officials that identified the main concerns with the Green Energy Act and its impact on the rights of citizens. The Act had been introduced in 2009 in efforts to make Ontario a world leader in “green” energy production. With the passing of the Green Energy Act, a number of statutes were also amended in order to achieve this goal; they reduced impediments to the approval of industrial wind turbine projects. The letter in its entirety is included in this paper. Mr. Whiteley had been involved in a legal case initiated by a not-for-profit organization that argued that the regulatory changes impacted the rights of citizens. Documents such as those submitted through that court filings, such as Factums and Affidavits provided by Ontario residents, and other documents are referenced. Objectives: The goal of the letter was to affect modernization of the justice system to improve access to justice, citizen rights and animal protection. Results: The letter identified and described changes to Acts and policies, gave examples of impacts, and offered possible reform proposals that would allow citizens fair access to justice and protect their rights. These proposals were solutions through changes to the legal system. No reply to the letter was received from any of the government officials, increasing concern regarding the value of the voice of the public.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.807
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.199
GPT teacher head0.435
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it