Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1984 election campaign, Brian Mulroney established four objectives for his leadership: unity and national reconciliation, economic renewal, social justice, and constructive internationalism.Canadians voted enthusiastically for his promise of peace and prosperity that year, re-elected Mulroney and his government in 1988, and then threw them unceremoniously out of power in 1993.Such is the sobering fate of Canadian prime ministers, as Raymond Blake explains in his Introduction to this volume assessing the Mulroney era.The authors in this volume were all themselves direct witnesses -as politicians, as scholars, as journalists, as citizens -and their stories make it clear that, while the context may differ from one decade to the next, Canadians can never escape the trade-offs and dilemmas imposed by their geo-political space.Since 1993, the country has been transformed by the combined pressures of globalization, technology, immigration, urbanization, and environmental constraints.Yet, thirteen years after Mulroney's formal departure from public affairs, he still has influence as an adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.It would be interesting to listen in on these conversations, if only because the policy challenges facing the Conservative government elected in January 2006 look remarkably similar.If the issues are the same, however, it is clear that the new Conservative Party will not always choose the same responses as Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives.One of the singular achievements of the Mulroney government was the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.It opened the door to a rapid expansion of trade between the two countries, but it has not by any means made it easier for Canadians to live next door to their vibrant neighbour.Today's tensions arise from the U.S. plan to require passports for all border crossings, worries about the security of the border in a time of terrorism, and the perennial fight about U.S. trade barriers for Canadian softwood lumber.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.656 | 0.645 |
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".