The Individual is Not the Institution: The Flawed Logic of the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench Decision in Acadian Society of New Brunswick v Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2021, the Acadian Society of New Brunswick brought an application to the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench seeking a declaration that the appointment of a unilingual anglophone as the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick was unconstitutional. Specifically, the Acadian Society claimed that the appointment of Brenda Murphy as New Brunswick’s lieutenant governor in 2019 violated the guarantees in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms of the equal status of English and French in New Brunswick. On April 14, 2022, the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, Tracey deWare, decided that the appointment of Ms Murphy as New Brunswick’s lieutenant governor was, indeed, in violation of the Charter. Yet, despite this conclusion, the Chief Justice also decided that it was appropriate to leave the question of what the implications of this determination should be to the executive branch of the Government of Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".