Fixing Canada: A Century of Indigenous-Targeted State Commissions of Inquiry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
State commissions are legal rituals and techniques of knowledge production that have been disproportionately used to navigate what has long been known as “the Indian Problem.” Out of 376 Canadian federal state commissions called since Confederation, at least 44 or 12% were called to address challenges arising from the governance, dispossession, and oppression of the Indigenous Peoples and nations. This doctoral project takes on this overlooked aspect of Canadian legal and political history in three parts. Each chapter is a manuscript that has been accepted to a peer-reviewed journal: Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Canadian Historical Studies, and BC Studies. The first establishes the historical phenomenon of Indigenous-focused state commissions through a discussion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; the following two are case studies related to the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs in the Province of British Columbia, conducted a century before.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.068 | 0.066 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".