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Legislative Resources

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LEGISinfo is an essential research tool for finding information on legislation currently before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as: * the text of the bill at various stages; * government press releases and backgrounders (for government bills); * legislative summaries from the Parliamentary Information and Research Service; * important speeches at second reading; * votes; and * coming into force data. In addition, LEGISinfo provides: a reading list; and other related Web links for House of Commons and Senate government bills. By bringing these sources together into one place, LEGISinfo offers easy access to legislative information and reduces time spent researching these matters. LEGISinfo is a collaborative effort of the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.

Open Parliament
A user-friendly volunteer-run website that attempts to make the records of Parliament more open and accessible. Get the full text of bills, debates, committee proceedings, etc. Because this is a non-governmental website, it is not authoritative as a citation. Best practice would be to use it as a search aid, then fact-check and cite the LEGISinfo or other governmental site entry.
Debates of the House of Commons
Full text of debates of the House of Commons (Hansard). Debates are presented by date: within a particular day, you can search by order of business, member, or topic. The complete script of the debate is available to read, and video of any portion of the debate is available to view.
Debates of the Senate
Full Hansard of the Senate of Canada. Advanced Searches can be limited by session, senator, subject, etc. Please note: the search function is only available for 40th Parliament, 3rd Session and later.
Justice Laws
Online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada. The consolidations are generally updated every two weeks.

Government of Canada Open Data
Search the Government of Canada's open data produced by ten departments: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Environment Canada; Department of Finance Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Library and Archives Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Statistics Canada; Transport Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat.