Hosting the Economic Leaders’ Meeting 1997: Canada and APEC
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On 24th-25th November, 1997, Canada hosted the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Vancouver. The federal government as well as many provincial leaders used this opportunity to present their country as a nation maintaining a multitude of cultural, political, economic and social ties with other countries in the Asia Pacific, in short, as a country which belongs to the region. Therefore, a multifaceted program was designed to precede and surround last year’s APEC activities and 1997 was declared ‘Canada’s Year of the Asia Pacific’. Apart from helping to build a sense of community in the Asia Pacific region, the strategy aimed at achieving some very concrete, mainly economic goals. This article analyzes three of these goals in detail, namely Canada’s interest in reducing its dependence on the U.S. market, in stimulating exports to the region, and in attracting business immigrants from Asia. Based on these determinants the paper examines Canada’s APEC policy, putting great emphasis on the government’s strategy for the 1997 meeting and assessing its success.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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.
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".