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Record W4399060756 · doi:10.29173/mlj1068

The Road to Hell: Examining The Organic Agricultural Products Act

2009· article· en· W4399060756 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Meaghan Daniel

Bibliographic record

VenueManitoba Law Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicOrganic Food and Agriculture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgricultureBusinessOrganic farmingGeographyArchaeology

Abstract

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hile debating The Organic Agricultural Products Act 1 ("OAPA") during a meeting of the Standing and Special Committee on Social and Economic Development, Mr. Goertzen, the Conservative MLA for Steinbach said, "I think we all know that a lot of bad legislation has been passed with good intentions at times." 2 A particularly apt description, since the purpose of the Act is divorced from its provisions.When introducing this legislation, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, the Honourable Rosann Wowchuk, summarized its intended function: "By creating provincial standards for organic food production in Manitoba that mirror federal standards, OAPA will provide the same assurance to Manitoba consumers and will assist Manitoba producers in their marketing efforts." 3 Thus characterized as a benign piece of legislation designed to fill the provincial gap left by federal regulations, in truth, the provincial legislation will only affect intra-provincial trade, targeting small-scale local producers.Once the legislation comes into force, local and commercial producers will not be uniformly assisted, but instead stratified; Manitoba consumers will derive a very limited benefit; and the environment, omitted from the stated purpose but not from the effects of this legislation, will be damaged.Despite these defects, this bill drifted from its first introduction and received Royal Assent without amendment or timely debate on its provisions.The OAPA sets out a series of permissive powers for a minister.The minister who is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to administer the OAPA is charged with the responsibility to draft regulations that create standards for organic certification.Only producers certified in accordance with 1 Bill 13, The Organic Agricultural Products Act, 1 st Sess., 39 th Leg., Manitoba, 2007 (assented to 8 Nov. 2007).[OAPA]. 2 Manitoba, Legislative Assembly, Standing and Special Committee on Social and Economic Development, in Official Reports of Debates (Hansard), (17 October 2007) at 26 (Mr.Goertzen).

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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)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
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 score0.338
Threshold uncertainty score0.679

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0220.023
Scholarly communication0.0160.008
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0170.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.177 · 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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