Bibliographic record
Abstract
The term “Cabinet secrecy” refers to the political and legal rules that protect the confidentiality of Cabinet deliberations and documents in Westminster jurisdictions. This article reflects the notes of an introductory course on Cabinet secrecy taught at the Department of Justice Canada from 2011 to 2017. The objective of the course was to introduce government lawyers and paralegals to the statutory framework protecting Cabinet secrecy at the federal level. It fulfilled an important need, given the dearth of literature on the subject. The course was not intended to criticize the statutory framework; rather, it sought to explain the rules governing Cabinet secrecy and the context in which these rules operate. This article seeks to make the contents of the course accessible to a broader audience. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the political protection of Cabinet secrecy under constitutional conventions. The second part examines the legal protection of Cabinet secrecy under common law and statute law. Lastly, the third part focuses specifically on the statutory regime established by Parliament pursuant to sections 39 of the Canada Evidence Act and 69 of the Access to Information Act.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".