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Still under development.
The complete set of documents is available now, here on-line, freely. With the main core done, there's the other 400 or so to do ...
Please note that these documents are the English versions. A committee was struck years ago to have them translated into an official French version for enactment, but to the best of my knowledge, it handed in its final report in 1993 and there has been nothing produced yet that is 'authorative.'
For more details on this, refer to section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
If anyone has any information to the contrary, please send info along, thank you.
If anyone has something to contribute to this archive, like historical legal documents relating to the evolution of Canada, feel free to drop me a note.
In addition to the subject-specific versions, there's also an index to all the Statutes of Canada online, despite the sorry state of online organisation.
You may try Canada's Department of Justice Web server for an almost complete selection of Acts in force today. Generally speaking, these are the Acts that one finds in the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, but are updated to include recent changes as well as more recent legislation.
To get a full sense of which laws are really enacted now, and to find which Ministers of the Crown are responsible (i.e., which Minister in the government is responsible for the law in question), you have to consult the Table of Public Statutes, available through the above site.
New: The Canada Gazette, Parts I through III are available at the Ministry of Public Works and Government Services web site. The Canada Gazette, among other things, publishes notices of new laws, orders-in-council, and constitutional amendments.
Well....just a few.
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada has published all the old treaties at their site
You can find all rulings dating back to the beginning of 1983.
Hopefully, the archive will expand to include the older rulings as well.
Many new changes have come with the arrival of the Mexican Federal Congress to the Internet. Here's an updated list of highlights on what's available:
See this Best of the Web , Document Design, '94 Nominee rendering of this document at Cornell's Law School.
Here is a great example of a constitutional act to compare against the Canadian one: Much more is defined in the powers of the Commonwealth of Australia Parliament, duties are more specifically defined, and they had the common sense to include an amending formula for their constitution in the first place....
The Constitution of France, otherwise known as the Constitution of the Fifth Republic is here in French.
The Russian Constitution is here and in Russian. This is the constitution that succeeded the Soviet Constitution. To view it, you need Cyrillic fonts, either for Windows or for X-Windows. This version may be out-of-date.
The Japanese Constitution is available in English or Japanese. Please note, the Japanese version requires a browser capable of interpreting and viewing Kanji characters.
The Irish constitution is reproduced in both Irish Gaelic and in English.
The constitution of the Slovak Republic is available in English.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is available here, as well as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Since 2006, the WTO have been making public many more documents via their ever-growing collection. The NAFTA Secretariat has likewise done the same.
Want some more? There's lots out there listed in my legal resources page, or alternatively, refer to the The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law section of the Virtual Library.
Please send me your comments or suggestions! I'd love to here from you.
Last updated: 2 July, 2022.
William F. Maton
Copyright (c) 1994-2022 by William F. Maton. Reproduction of any of these documents without permission strictly prohibited.
