2.6 Online sources for Canadian legislation

FREE Department of Justice Canada, Laws: Consolidated Statutes and Regulations: also provides access to helpful research resources and links to other related Web sites.

FREE CANLII:  The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) provides the text of most federal and provincial statutes and regulations online; however they are not considered official versions.  CANLII is a not-for-profit organization initiated by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII's goal is to make primary sources of Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.

FREE LEGISInfo (Canada) 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.

See Canadian Resources on the Web for specific links to the statutes of federal and provincial jurisdictions.

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