The Relations between Canada and Quebec: An Appraisal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper analyses the longstanding issue of Quebec's self-determination, in light of the recent judgment of the Superior Court of Québec Henderson c. Attorney General of Quebec. After years of procedural delays, the appeal of the former Equality Party leader at the Assemblée nationale du Québec Keith O. Henderson has finally reached a ruling that could put an end – for now – to the decades-long dispute between Ottawa and Quebec. At the moment, it seems unlikely that the "clarity" of the referendum question will again be examined by the Canadian Supreme Court, twenty years after its famous Advisory Opinion on the possibility of secession of Québec and on the formulation of the related question. For the time being, the Superior Court of Québec finds itself in a deadlock in which the federal and provincial governments remain entrenched on \ntheir respective positions. The positive trend, in procedural terms, of the recent referendums on the independence of Scotland and New Caledonia – in which the strategic importance of a negotiated approach was fully recognized in ensuring that the referendum procedure is conducted in a peaceful and respectful manner between the parties – does not yet seem to inspire the governments of Ottawa and Quebec to take a decisive step towards a direct \nagreement on the question to be eventually submitted to the citizens.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".