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Record W4408509220 · doi:10.3138/cjc-2024-0019

Crafting an Intersectional Response to Bill C-27 for the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology

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Karen L. Smith, Opeyemi Akanbi, Sana Maqsood, Jonathan A. Obar, Joanna Redden, Sara Bannerman

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Communication · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntellectual Property Law
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityMcMaster UniversityYork UniversityToronto Metropolitan UniversityBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceSociologyTelecommunicationsEngineering

Abstract

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Background: In the fall of 2023, a group of scholars prepared a brief to respond intersectionally to Bill C-27 after its second reading and study by the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Updates to Canada’s private sector privacy law and regulation of artificial intelligence were important elements proposed in Bill C-27. Analysis: This article reflects upon five significant issues related to our brief and intersectionality. Conclusion and implications: Our reflections contribute to a greater understanding of the critical/administrative dichotomy in communications scholarship, and to knowledge about how to apply an intersectional approach to privacy and AI policy in Canada.

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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)0.043
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.097
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.947
Threshold uncertainty score0.818

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0430.097
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0530.022
Scholarly communication0.0220.007
Open science0.0040.011
Research integrity0.0310.037
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.290 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2025
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