Bibliographic record
Abstract
eighing in at 48 pages and some 6 000 words, Bill 37 1 of the second session of Manitoba's 39 th Legislature was a massive undertaking.So massive, in fact, that the five-bills-in-one superbill never made its way off the ground during the session.Bill 37 was introduced 30 April, moved to its committee stage three-andone-half weeks later, and was on its way to becoming law when it was derailed by (depending on how one looks at it) either an effective opposition attack at committee meetings or a procedural quagmire created by a minority group of MLAs that wasn't willing to play ball.Keeping with the baseball metaphor, Bill 37 had all the drama of a bases loaded, 3-2 pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning, and at least as much substantive clout.In total, the bill sought to create or amend five different statutes.If passed as originally proposed, it would have created a provincial lobbyist registry system, a new public subsidy for political parties, fixed date elections, given a government-dominated committee the power to screen MLA mailouts, and aggressive new limits on political spending and communications.Quite the mouthful: and one that, in the end, Manitoba's legislative process was unable to swallow in one session alone.After five nights of packed houses at committee meetings, the government and opposition came to an agreement to delay passage 1 The Lobbyists Registration Act and Amendments to the Elections Act, the Elections Finances Act, The Legislative Assembly Act and the Legislative Assembly Management Commission Act, 2 nd Sess., 39 th Leg., Manitoba, 2008 [Bill 37].Describing the Bill in the House, Progressive Conservative Opposition Leader Hugh McFadyen said that it "contains some 48 pages and, just as a rough estimate, close to 6,000 words of legislation.It is not your average piece of legislation by any stretch of the imagination.It is an important bill not only in terms of its length at 6,000 words, but it's an important bill in terms of its impact on our democratic institutions here in Manitoba."(Manitoba, Legislative Assembly, Standing Committee on Justice, Vol.LX No. 2 (26 May 2008) at 28) [Committee (26 May 2008)].
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.022 |
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".