Bibliographic record
Abstract
Underneath the Golden Boy 'Manitoba gasohol' is defined as 'gasohol that contains no denatured ethanol manufactured outside of Manitoba'.Bill 2 was submitted for first reading in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly on 21 November 2003.Six days later, Bill 2 went through second reading and was referred to committee hearings for 2 December 2003.The government made no secret of the fact that it was trying to push this legislation through the legislature as quickly as possible, to help make the Manitoba ethanol industry qualify for federal grant money.4 On 4 December 2003, Bill 2 went through third reading and was passed.The bill provides that the Act will come into force on a day fixed by proclamation.It was the second time the bill was introduced to the legislature.On 23 April 2003, nine days before Gary Doer called an election, The Biofuels Act 5 was introduced.The call of the election killed the original bill.While there are some notable differences between the two bills, in substance the two bills are very similar.Bill 2 is an important piece of legislation, with significant financial implications for the petroleum industry, Manitoba consumers and taxpayers, and rural farmers.Yet Bill 2 was hurried through the legislature, without significant debate or opposition.I will attempt in this paper to explain why this has happened.I will also look at the background and purpose of the legislation, and try to answer the question of whether this legislation is a good idea for Manitoba.I have come to the conclusion that only time will tell whether The Biofuels and Gasoline Tax Amendment Act is an excellent, average or terrible idea.It could be any of the above.That is why the lack of significant debate and opposition to Bill 2 was surprising. II. BACKGROUNDThe government says that a gasohol mandate is in the economic and environmental interests of Manitoba.6 On the economic side, the Manitoba economy currently loses $430 million annually in income transfers because of its imports of gasoline from other jurisdictions.7 If 4 Manitoba, Legislative Assembly, Hansard, Volume LIV No.6, (27 November 2003) (Hon.Tim Sale) 5
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.006 |
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".