Canada in relation to the unity of the Empire.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada in Belation to the Unity of the Empire.honour of an interview with the Earl of Rosebery and the Marquis of Ripon on this subject.They stated that Canada had agreed to give a subsidy of £175,000 a year to a fast steamship service between England and Australasia vid Canada, and would give substantial support to a cable from Vancouver to Australia, and that these sub- sidies would be largely supplemented by the Governments of Aus- tralasia ; and they asked for the co-operation and aid of her Majesty's Government to these services, on the ground of their great political, strategical, commercial, and defensive value.The deputation was assured that their representations would receive the most careful consideration of the Government, and that a representative would be sent to attend the Conference at Ottawa.This movement has received, as might naturally be expected, the hearty support of a large portion of the Press of this country. Many persons have been surprised to find that Sir JohnColomb, who has professed to be a friend of the unity of the Empire, has assumed a position of hostility to these proposals.I confess that I did not share that surprise, as I had long since learned that that gentleman was apparently not well-informed of the extent to which the great Colonies have rendered yeoman service to the defence of the Empire-unless, as Sir John Colomb seems to think, the term Empire applies only to Great Britain.As this is a question of much moment, permit me to draw attention briefly to some of these services.A few years ago every important town in British North America was garrisoned by British troops.To-day not one of them is to be found in that country, except at Halifax, where a small force is kept for strategical purposes. When Canada purchased the North-WestTerritoryfrom the Hudson Bay Company, Lord Wolseley was sent with Imperial troops to put down a rebellion.When a subsequent rising, under the same half-breed leader, Riel, took place, it was suppressed by Canada without the cost of a shilling to Great Britain.The Government of Canada has expended on An Interoceanic Eailway
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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".