“Canada’s back” – can the Trudeau government resuscitate Canadian diplomacy?
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Abstract
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers have been fond of emphasizing that “Canada is back” on the global stage. Defense and development reviews have been completed, but, with the exception of Foreign Minister Freeland’s brief parliamentary address in June 2017, little is known of the government’s intentions regarding international policy, diplomacy or grand strategy. This analysis reviews key developments during the transition from the Cold War to the globalization age, examines Canada’s evolving place in the post-war world, and assesses that the performance of the government through to mid-term has been, at best, mixed. To improve results, the author sketches an ambitious five-point plan for fundamental diplomatic, institutional and international policy transformation. Résumé Le Premier ministre canadien, Justin Trudeau, et ses ministres, se plaisent à souligner que « le Canada est de retour » sur la scène mondiale. Un examen de la défense et du développement a été effectué mais, à l’exception du bref discours de Mme Freeland, Ministre des Affaires étrangères, au Parlement en juin 2017, on connaît mal les intentions du gouvernement en matière de politique internationale, de diplomatie ou de grande stratégie. Cette analyse passe en revue les développement clés correspondant à la période de la Guerre froide à celle de la mondialisation, examine la position en évolution du Canada dans le monde d’après-guerre, et vérifie que la performance du gouvernement, à moyen terme, a été, au mieux, mitigée. Dans une perspective d’amélioration des résultats, l’auteur esquisse, en cinq points, un plan ambitieux de transformation fondamentale de la diplomatie, des institutions et de la politique internationale.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.001 |
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".