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Record W4391562878 · doi:10.4324/9781003394006-23

Rights Discourse and Canadian Debate Over Vaccine Passports

2024· book-chapter· en· W4391562878 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bryan Thomas

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHuman Rights and Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceLaw and economicsLawSociology

Abstract

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In Canada, the implementation of vaccine passports has been controversial. From the outset, critics alleged that vaccine passports would infringe various Charter and human rights protections, including the right to mobility, the right to “life, liberty and security of the person,” the right to equality and the rights to freedom of religion and conscience. Meanwhile, privacy advocates made ominous predictions about the creation of a “show-me-your-papers” society. This chapter systematically explores these critiques, showing that vaccine passports have not, in fact, posed any grave threat to civil liberties or privacy rights. Arguably, this legal and moral alarmism around vaccine passports had the unhelpful effect of discouraging public deliberation in the lead-up to the second wave of the pandemic—forcing governments to scramble with implementation at the eleventh hour. The chapter ends with some reflections on the responsibilities of legal commentators and public intellectuals in the midst of a fast-shifting public health emergency.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.359
Threshold uncertainty score0.744

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.007
Science and technology studies0.0590.046
Scholarly communication0.0250.011
Open science0.0050.007
Research integrity0.0160.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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