Reconciliation Through Canadian Cultural Institutions: Past and Future Perspectives on Federal Cultural Policy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis delves into the topic of reconciliation through Canada's national cultural institutions, offering new perspectives on the historyand possible futuresof federal cultural policy.It begins with an account of the history of Canadian cultural policy, including its imbrication with settler colonialism, up to when the federal government committed publicly to advance reconciliation.Then, drawing on NCI's annual reports for the years 2015-16 to 2019-20, it analyzes whether their activities meaningfully support the government's goal of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.The thesis concludes that the government's approach of making reconciliation a priority for individual NCIs is ill-suited for addressing the colonial framework that made reconciliation necessary in the first place.Unravelling the intertwined histories of Canadian cultural policy and settler colonialism will require a coordinated systemic governance approach to reconciliation that unsettles epistemologies rather than ad hoc activities developed to meet broad government priorities in the short term.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.040 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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; 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".