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Canada Government and Law

• Common Law system
• Unitary System:
  • Provincial courts hear federal and provincial law cases
  • Federal Court has jurisdiction limited to claims against the federal government and specified subjects (copyright, patents), Appeal and Trial Divisions
  • Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from Federal and provincial courts

Canadian legal materials

• Print materials at Emory:  Ranges 372-375, Hansell Room, not current
• Cases:
  • Canada Supreme Court Reports, Federal Court Reports
  • Dominion Law Reports
    • Provincial and federal cases
    • Commercial reporter, with advance sheets and headnotes
  • Provincial reporters:  only Ontario and Quebec current, volumes to 2003 for other provinces
• Statutes:
  • Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 Consolidation
  • Statutes of Canada 1952-current volumes
  • Most recent in Canada Gazette Part III 
  • Provincial statutes:  only Quebec and Nova Scotia current, other provinces in print up to 2002
  • Federal Parliament of Canada: recent bills, journals, debates
• Regulations:
  • Consolidated Regulations of Canada 1978
  • More recent in Canada Gazette Part II (1979-current volumes)

Canadian law online

• Lexis
  
  • Canada resources under Foreign Laws include Canadian consolidated Federal legislation (statutes and regulations), consolidated provincial legislation (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario), Federal and provincial case reporters
• Westlaw
  • Federal and provincial statutes and regulations, Federal and provincial caselaw, Carswell treatises
• vLex
  • Canada Gazette from 1998, Supreme Court, Federal Court, and Federal Court of Appeal, law reviews
• Hein Online Session Laws:  Acts of the Parliament of Canada 1792-2011
  • Revised Statutes (1985 with supplements to 1992, plus earlier versions)
  • Canada Supreme Court Reports 1876-2011 
• CANLii:  Searchable Federal and provincial statutes, regulations, cases
• Laws of Canada (Dept. of Justice):  Consolidated Acts and Regulations
• Canada Gazette;  HTML and official PDF images of Canada Gazette
  • Part I:  notices and proposed regulations
  • Part II:  official regulations
  • Part III:  Acts of Parliament
• University of Alberta Centre for Constitutional Studies
  • Articles and cases on Canadian constitutional law
• University of Toronto
  • Links to Canadian federal and provincial legislation

Research Guides

• GlobaLex
• Duke Law Library
• Georgetown Law Library