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Legislation
- Acts of the Parliament of Canada Official PDFs from Government of Canada Publications.
- Canada Gazette 1841-current
- Canada Treaty Information Canada Treaty Series (some full text)
- Canadian Acts of the Parliament Annual and Revised Statutes (via HeinOnline) Collection of the Public General Acts in the form in which they were originally enacted by Parliament in a given calendar year and official consolidations of 1985, 1970, 1952, 1927, 1906, and 1886.
- Canadian Provincial Statutes (via HeinOnline) Public and private acts passed by Canadian provincial governments.
- Consolidated Statutes and Regulations of Canada An official consolidation, or updated version, of the federal Acts and regulations maintained by the Department of Justice.
- Justice Laws Consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada.
- LEGISinfo Legislation currently before Parliament (bills). Links to debates, provides coming-into-force information, and where available, links to legislative summaries prepared by the Library of Parliament.
- Orders in Council (OICs) made from 1990 to the present. Orders in Council made between 1867 and 1924 can be found on the Orders in Council Research Tool through Library and Archives Canada. Orders in Council (OICs) are legal tools that address administrative and legislative matters of the federal government. These include appointments, transactions between the government and private sector, control of Indigenous lands and policy items.
- Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers Showing all the chapters of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, with their amendments, and certain other public Acts and their amendments. Particularly used to find amending statutes.
Government documents
- GALLOP Portal Full-text searchable electronic government documents collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions (in Beta version)
- Government of Canada Publications Catalogue of publications from various Canadian departments and offices. (May not work in Chrome)
Historical
- Canada Gazette 1841-
- Canadian Acts of the Parliament Annual and Revised Statutes (via HeinOnline) Collection of the Public General Acts in the form in which they were originally enacted by Parliament in a given calendar year and official consolidations of 1985, 1970, 1952, 1927, 1906, and 1886.
- Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources "...includes all debates, journals and committee documentation of the Senate and the House of Commons from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament (1867) until coverage at www.parl.ca begins. Historical sessional papers are also available from 1867 to 1901."
- Canadian Provincial Statutes (via HeinOnline) Public and private acts passed by Canadian provincial governments.
- Government Publications Collection - Canadiana "...includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents.This collection includes government acts, bills, committee reports, court rules, debates, journals, ordinances, a selection of official publications from France and Great Britain, sessional papers, regulations, royal commission reports, voter’s lists and treaties."
- Lipad Searchable Hansard transcript from 1901 to 2018
- Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers Showing all the chapters of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, with their amendments, and certain other public Acts and their amendments. Particularly used to find amending statutes.
Resource key
- McGill users only
- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
