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speeches at second reading, recorded votes,
and coming into force data.
Furthermore, a section called FAQ on the Parliament of Canada supplies
a great deal of supplementary information and answers to questions like “How
does a bill become law?” and “What happens in caucus?” LEGISInfo is easy to
navigate and provides a good one-stop-shopping source for everything you may
need to know about developing legislation.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/legisinfo
Canada Gazette
All three parts of the Gazette are available free of
charge, in bilingual PDF format, searchable using Adobe Acrobat or html
format. Published every Saturday, Canada Gazette, Part I contains all
formal public notices, official appointments and proposed regulations. Part
II is published every second Wednesday, and contains regulations and other
statutory instruments. Part III contains the Public Acts of Canada, and its
purpose is to publish this new legislation as soon as possible after it
receives Royal Assent. Anyone who has ever had to search this material in the
good old fashioned print version will appreciate the accessibility of this
digital format, with coverage starting from January 1998.
http://www.gazette.gc.ca
Canada Department of Justice - Consolidated Statutes
and Regulations
The Department of Justice's site has a history of being woefully out of date
but it appears that this situation has been rectified. The site has finally
been upgraded to allow for timely and regular updates. The site also
has a point-in-time feature that allows you to see versions if acts back to
Jan 1, 2003 and regulations back to Mar 22, 2006. Although the site holds
much older, consolidated law (some acts even dating back to 1870), you can
access all annual statutes as passed by year back to 2002 .
http://laws.justice.gc.ca
ONTARIO
E-Laws
The e-Laws web site offers quick, easy and
comprehensive access to the consolidated laws of Ontario. After having cut
back on the availability of Ontario statutes in hard copy, primarily by
reducing access to the printed Bills service, this site is a major step in
the Government of Ontario's ongoing efforts to improve access to up-to-date
laws. Its goal is to provide consolidated
statutes and regulations that are up to date within 10 business days of
enactment of a new law or amendment of an existing law.
It is easy to start a search simply by clicking on the
standard search button and filling in the 3 boxes: statutes and/or
regulations, contents or title, and sort by title or number of hits. Or, if
you want to get fancy, you can choose any of the clear but detailed help
screens which explain advanced features like browsing, specific searches, and
searching within a statute or regulation.
This site also includes reference tables
that will enable you to check for recent changes in the law. You may also
link to the Legislative Assembly's web site to see bills. This is now
the first place we go to when looking for Ontario law. This site can be
accessed at www.e-laws.gov.on.ca
Ontario Gazette
This site links into .pdf versions of the individual issues of the Ontario
Gazette and the main search template is rudimentary at best. If you
know the particular gazette issue you need to access, then this site will
work, but searching is problematic. Searches for "costs and grid" and
"courts and justice and regulations" failed, although both the costs grid and
all other Courts of Justice Act regulations are available within the issues.
The site carries issues from 2000 forward, and can be accessed at
http://www.ontariogazette.gov.on.ca
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