Evidence of Mr. Douglas Brymner before the Senate committee on private bills, in opposition to the bills for transferring the said endowments to the Presbyterian church in Canada, 24th and 26th April, 1882.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The following evidence, given before the Private Bills Com mittee of the Senate of Canada, needs little explanation.A ma jority of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in con- nection with the Church of Scotland, resolved in 1874 to join three religious bodies and to form a new organisation, to be called the Presbyterian Church in Canada.Before they would do so, however, they sought and obtained Acts from the Provincial Legis- latures enabling them to take possession of the properties, funds and colleges of the Church they were leaving.The Rev. Robert Dobie, acting on behalf of the adherents of the Church, raised a suit to set aside the Provincial Acts, the suit being finally decided by the JudicialCommitteeof the Privy Council in favour of Mr. Dobie, in January, 1882.Application was then made by the un- successful litigants, to the Parliament of Canada, for Acts practi- cally to legalise the Provincial Legislation and to override the de- cision of the highest Court of the Empire by which that was set aside.How these Acts were carried may be best told in the words of the Rev. George Grant, who constituted himself the Mercury (a god of very varied attributes) of those who had left the Church of Scotland in Canada, and desired to take possession of the property of her adherents.The statement was written immediately after his return from a successful lobbying, in the course of which, and covertly in the Committee of the House of Commons, he had threatened that at the approaching general election every member would be bitterly opposed who refused to pass the Bills sought for.The picture, not a flattering one, is thinly veiled under pre- tence of a general attack on party government.The reverend gentleman says :-" I have described members of Parliament as they are when discussing any general measure.But there is another side to the Y2± J.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.017 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.004 |
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".