The New West: Bill 202 and Manitoba's Future in the New West Partnership
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ill 202, The Participation of Manitoba in the New West Partnership Act, 1 is a Private Member's Bill introduced by Progressive Conservative (PC) MLA Heather Stefanson in the Fourth session of the Fortieth Legislature of Manitoba.It is the fourth time that the Opposition has attempted to pass such a bill. 2 If the Bill were to be enacted, within one year of its coming into force, the Government of Manitoba would be compelled to "communicate [with the governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan]the desire of the government to join the New West Partnership and its intention to commence negotiations with those governments as soon as possible." 3While the Bill has not yet faced second reading, it is clear that the current Government does not support the Bill, and it seems to be intended more to influence public opinion than to compel executive action.This paper will begin by providing a brief history and outline of the New West Partnership (NWP).It will then look at the Government of Manitoba's view of the NWP, and the three other NWP Bills that the PCs have proposed.Finally, this paper will examine Bill 202 itself, focusing on the arguments presented in favour of and against the Bill by both the Government and Opposition.While some of the benefits and drawbacks
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".