The nation of Quebec in a united Canada: recognizing and defining Quebec's distinctiveness in the Constitution of Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the implications of recognizing Quebec as a nation within the Constitution of Canada. Based on a comparative analysis of the legal scholarship relating to the 'distinct society' provisions of the failed Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accord, s this thesis concludes that the effect of constitutionally recognizing Quebec as a nation would be to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Quebec Government, and to limit the scope of Charter rights, while expanding the permissible limitations thereof. However, on the basis of self-recognition, the entity within Quebec that can best be described as a nation is the ethno-cultural nation of the Quebecois (francophone Quebecers), rather than Quebecers as a whole. Thereore, the thesis concludes that constitutional recognition of Quebec as a nation should not occur before a majority of non-francophone Quebecers also self-identify as part of a civic nation of Quebec.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".