Canada Conservative leadership race beckons
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Significance Under outgoing leader Andrew Scheer, the Conservatives won the popular vote in the October 2019 federal election, but not a majority of seats. The new leader will lead the party into the next election, and because the Liberals now, post-October, govern as a minority, that election will likely come before October 2023. Impacts The Liberal government will last until at least the middle of this year: the Conservatives want their new leader first. To trigger an election, the Conservatives will need other parties’ support, most likely to come from the NDP. An eastern-Canadian Conservative leader could see further western-Canadian political alienation and separatist sentiment. The Conservatives will likely soften their opposition to the federal carbon tax. The Conservatives will also likely soften their opposition to socially divisive issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.132 | 0.016 |
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".