Bibliographic record
Abstract
Globally and domestically, procurement localism is on the rise. This can take the form of a Buy Canada policy that favors local suppliers. Assuming the localism of a Buy Canada is preferable, how can federal procurement policies and guidelines be designed to maximize its local returns? This article profiles three potential policy design challenges that may undermine a federal Buy Canada policy’s implementation and evaluation. First, Canadian international trade commitments ensure nondiscrimination, putting many contracts out of the reach. Second, simplistic approaches to capturing a supplier’s origin, like a given address, would result in marginal change. Third, data gaps like subcontracting diminish policy renewal and enable leakages to unknown foreign suppliers. Using Buy America as a counter case, this article makes recommendations to address these design gaps and maximize Buy Canada. It suggests new federal trade derogations, employee-defined origin, domestic sourcing requirements and subcontracting data collection.
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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 | 0.043 | 0.065 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.002 |
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.
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".