Bibliographic record
Abstract
I was Canada's newly appointed Chief of Defence on 9/11, having assumed my responsibilities at a Change of Command Ceremony held in Ottawa, Ontario, on 28 June 2001 under clear blue skies, not unlike those over New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania on that tragic and fateful day just over two months later.Canada's response and support to its neighbour and closest ally to the south were immediate and all-encompassing and forever changed the way that we approach our North American Aerospace Defense (norad) commitments and our national, continental, and international security.The aftermath also redefined the way that I executed my mandate as Chief of the Defence Staff and, later, my responsibilities as Chair of the nato Military Committee.This book accurately describes the actions taken in Canada, the United States, and Mexico during and after the terrorist attacks; the international response, including the first-ever declaration of Article V by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato); and the Global War on Terrorism subsequently engaged in by the United States and its allies.At the same time, it acknowledges that the world has been bombarded over the twenty-plus years since those deadly attacks by a series of political, economic, cultural, and security challenges, with significant and evolving consequences for our contributions to global security and our bilateral relationships with our continental partners, in particular the United States.The impact of decades of operations in Afghanistan, the introduction of a broad range of counter-terrorist initiatives in North America and abroad, and the realignment of concepts of operations for sea surveillance and the protection of North American airspace have been transformational, xiv Foreword to say the least.The degree to which those changes have enhanced collective safety, security, and prosperity for Canada, the United States, and Mexico remains to be seen.This fact-filled and insightful book will give you much cause for reflection and will help you draw your own informed conclusions.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.574 | 0.574 |
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".