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Record W4399040412 · doi:10.29173/mlj1034

Parliamentary Reform

2007· article· en· W4399040412 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Vic Toews

Bibliographic record

VenueManitoba Law Journal · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical and Economic history of UK and US
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceLaw and economicsSociology

Abstract

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ood afternoon, and thank you very much for the invitation to be here with you to discuss this very important subject.I caught part of the last presentation, and quite enjoyed Professor Schwartz's comments, and he has a wonderful way of bringing reality down into a couple of sentences.The one thing that did puzzle me was the question about how to take politics and ideology out of decision-making, and I wondered if I was in the right room.The nature of Parliament, the nature of the legislature, is political decisions.All of our decisions, whether we are elected politicians, or whether we are in another capacity-we all bring a certain ideological perspective, we bring a political perspective.That's why we have different political parties in the House of Commons or in the legislature, and it's in that debate, I think, that we see progress.The issue of Parliamentary reform, I think, is very pertinent, and I think very timely.I want to thank the Institute for putting on this conference.During the last 10 years, I think many Canadians have perceived that the so-called democratic deficit in Parliament has grown larger.(Indeed it was the Prime Minister's battle cry that he was going to cure the democratic deficit.)Canadians have been increasingly cynical about the way elections have been called, how campaigns have been conducted, and indeed, how in fact turnout in these elections has gone down.Electoral laws have been hastily put in place to benefit the government and to limit free-speech.Closure and the time allocation have been employed in Parliament to an unprecedented degree.Appointments to some of our most important institutions, the Senate and the Supreme Court of Canada (and indeed all superior courts) have remained the personal preserve of a political decision maker, namely, the Prime Minister.There is no question that the system must change, and it's not good enough to talk about the democratic deficit.We need to end it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.898
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.250 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Published2007
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