Cutting the Knot: Founding Canada and Restoring the Honour of the Crown
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The honour of the Crown in Canadian Aboriginal jurisprudence has taken on a prominent role in interpreting s.35 of the Constitution Act 1982, cited as grounding, at a minimum, Crown responsibilities to consult and accommodate. Yet what is not often discussed is the over 800 year long legal legacy of the honour of the Crown in common law and equity and that our understanding of Crown honour today appears greatly narrowed and underapplied in contrast. I offer a more full and complete understanding of the roots of the honour of the Crown and its relevance to the Crown's relationship to Indigenous peoples with the hope of offering a new lens through which to more properly understand those relationships, those treaties made on the basis of Crown honour, and the path of reconciliation itself.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 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".