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Walking for “Freedom”: The Charter and “Rights Talk” amidst Canada’s COVID-19 culture war: Marcher pour la « liberté » : La Charte et le « discours des droits » au milieu de la guerre culturelle COVID-19 du Canada

2021· article· fr· W3206669544 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Darren Choi

Bibliographic record

VenuePolitical Science Undergraduate Review · 2021
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicVietnamese History and Culture Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCharterPoliticsDemocracyPolitical scienceLawIndividualismHuman rightsSociologyPopulation
DOInot available

Abstract

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English The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a culture war in Canada, as a determined segment of citizenry – the “anti-lockdown” movement – has furiously opposed public health measures. Chief among the many arguments advanced by anti-lockdowners is the assertion that public health measures constitute an unacceptable violation of Canadians’ Charter rights. The frequent invocation of Charter rights by the anti-lockdown movement cannot be understood in isolation, but rather as part of a wider pattern within Canadian political discourses. Since the adoption of the Charter in 1982, Canadian political discourses have been influenced by “rights talk,” a hyper-individualistic and uncompromisingly absolutist conception of Charter rights. The anti-lockdown movement is a manifestation of the deep permeation of rights talk into Canadian political life; through a case study of anti-lockdown discourses, this paper demonstrates how the hyper-individualism and absolutism of rights talk are at the core of anti-lockdowners’ understanding of the Charter. Rights talk is fundamentally at odds with our collective policy needs during a pandemic, leading to an extremely difficult pandemic political environment in Canada. Moreover, the damage anti-lockdowners have done to our public health discourses foreshadows the damage that unchecked rights talk can do to Canadian democracy; there is an urgent need to repair our collective understandings and discourses about the Charter and the fundamental rights protected therein. Francais La pandemie de COVID-19 a declenche une guerre culturelle au Canada, car un segment determine de la population — le mouvement « anti-confinement » — s’est furieusement oppose aux mesures de sante publique. Parmi les nombreux arguments avances par les militants anti-confinement, le principal est l’affirmation selon laquelle les mesures de sante publique constituent une violation inacceptable des droits des Canadiens en vertu de la Charte. L’invocation frequente des droits garantis par la Charte de la part du mouvement anti-confinement ne peut etre comprise isolement, mais plutot comme faisant partie d’un modele plus large dans les discours politiques canadiens. Depuis l’adoption de la Charte en 1982, les discours politiques canadiens ont ete influences par le « discours des droits », une conception hyperindividualiste et absolutiste sans compromis des droits de la Charte. Le mouvement anti-confinement est une manifestation de l’impregnation profonde du discours sur les droits dans la vie politique canadienne; a travers une etude de cas des discours anti-confinement, cet article demontre comment l’hyperindividualisme et l’absolutisme du discours sur les droits sont au cœur de la comprehension de la Charte par les militants anti-confinement. Le discours sur les droits est fondamentalement en desaccord avec nos besoins politiques collectifs pendant une pandemie, ce qui conduit a un environnement politique extremement difficile en cas de pandemie au Canada. De plus, les dommages que les militants anti-confinement ont causes a nos discours sur la sante publique laissent presager les dommages qu’un discours sur les droits non controle peut causer a la democratie canadienne; il y a un besoin urgent de reparer nos comprehensions et nos discours collectifs sur la Charte et les droits fondamentaux qui y sont proteges.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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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)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.832
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.008
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.299 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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