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Record W376830916 · doi:10.34382/00008492

Multiculturalism in Canada : a historical perspective

2008· article· en· W376830916 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Simon Nantais

Bibliographic record

VenueRitsumeikan Academic Repository (R-Cube) (Ritsumeikan University) · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)MulticulturalismPolitical scienceSociologyGeographyComputer scienceLawArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Canada is renowned as a country that welcomes thousands of immigrants every year and is praised as a success in multiculturalism.But Canada was not always so welcome to immigrants and it has only been 40 years since Canada instituted a non-discriminatory, points-based immigration system.Though Canada was always "multicultural," the demographic nature of the country took a marked change after 1900.The federal government invited hard-working immigrants from around the world to build the new country.However, the presence of so many Asian immigrants upset many segments of white society in British Columbia.This paper looks at how Canadian politicians justified an exclusionary immigration policy to solve the "problem" of Japanese immigration.This will focus primarily on the Lemieux mission, which was a Canadian diplomatic mission in 1907 aimed at restricting Japanese immigration to Canada. Background to the Lemieux MissionDuring the fi rst decade of the twentieth century, Canada experienced the fi rst major economic and demographic boom in its young history.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister from 1896-1911, famously promised that "the 20 th century will belong to Canada" and he invited hard-working immigrants from Europe to help him build that dream.There was a hierarchy in the type of immigrant sought.As Canada was a member of the British Empire, white, Protestant Britons were preferred.Northern

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.226
Threshold uncertainty score0.898

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.012
Science and technology studies0.0490.018
Scholarly communication0.0110.003
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.185 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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