R. v. Comeau: A Crack In the Wall?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2012, one man’s journey from New Brunswick to Quebec in pursuit of cheap beer sparked a fierce constitutional debate about the role of interprovincial trade in Canada. In a booze run that has since made Canadian legal history, G rard Comeau drove from his home in Tracadie, New Brunswick to the Listiguj First Nation Indian Reserve in Quebec, where alcohol is sold at a cheap price. While there, he stocked up on 15 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor, purchased from three different stores. Unbeknownst to him, Mr. Comeau had been under surveillance in his sojourn into Quebec. When he crossed back over into New Brunswick, Mr. Comeau’s vehicle was intercepted by the RCMP, the alcohol was seized, and Mr. Comeau was charged and fined close to $300 under section 134(b) of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Act, which prohibits possession of liquor not purchased from the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation in excess of a prescribed amount.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
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".