Justice in Her Own Right: Bertha Wilson and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Upon being sworn in at the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson declared herself “a true servant of the law ” and expressed her trust that “within the collegial structure of this national Court I can be a faithful steward of the best of our legal heritage”.1 Her appointment marked the confluence of two landmark events: the near simultaneous arrival of the Supreme Court of Canada’s first woman judge and Canada’s newly enacted constitutional rights.2 Her tenure on the Court, from 1982 to 1990, was a momentous — and a poignant — time in Bertha Wilson’s life. In extra-judicial speeches she processed her doubts, fears, and anxieties about the “awesome responsibility ” of decision-making, admitting that, for her, each judgment would “always be a lonely decision”.3 Nor did the collegial bonds she yearned for develop at the Court.4 Inveterate loner that she was, Wilson turned — as she had at other times in her life — to her own resources. One wonders whether she found comfort, or courage, in the determined words of Edward Everett
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.060 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".