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This guide contains resources useful for obtaining an understanding of legislative bodies and the process of transforming a legislative (proposal) into a law (act/statute)
Canada - Federal
- Federal Parliament
- General Information on Legislation
- Guide to Making Federal Acts and Regulations
- House of Commons Compendium of Procedure
- How Canadians Govern Themselves
- Are you Ready to Legislate?
- How a Government Bill becomes Law - Canada
- Legislative Process: From Government Policy to Proclamation
- Coming into Force of Federal Legislation
- LEGISINFO An essential tool for finding information on bills since 2001 - includes legislative summaries and background information
- Debates (verbatim transcript of proceedings) - House of Commons and Senate
- see also Canadian Parliamentary historical resources 1867-1996
- House of Commons debates (reconstituted 1867-1870} - Early Canadiana version
- Debates of the Senate (reconstituted 1867-1870) - Early Canadiana version
- lipad (Hansard from 1901 to today)
- Legislative Committees: House of Commons and Senate
- Sessional papers - papers generated outside the House, but tabled (full text) for the Members' information (1901 to 1925)
see the Cumulative Indexes and volumes in Early Canadiana Online
continued by the Annual Departmental Reports (1924/25-1929/30) - Guide to the Federal Regulatory Development Process
- OECD Review of Regulatory Reform: Canada
- Canada Gazette
- Justice Laws Website
- CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute (links to federal and provincia/territorial laws and regulations)
Monitoring of Parliament
Openparliament.ca
Canada - Provincial
- How are Alberta's Laws Passed?
- How a Bill Becomes Law in British Columbia
- How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick
- How a Bill Becomes Law - Nova Scotia
- How a Government Bill Becomes Law - Ontario
- How Laws are Made - Manitoba
- How Saskatchewan Laws are Made
- Legislative Process in Nunavut
- Legislative Process Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
- Process of passing legislation in the National Assembly - Quebec
- Yukon Legislation Website
- CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute
United Kingdom
United States
Useful methods of searching the U.S. Code
Search the United States Code (U.S. House of Representatives)
U.S. Code: Table of Contents and quick search by citation (Legal Information Instiutute)
The United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations are also available through LexisNexis-Law - search by Subject or Topic - Federal Statutes and Regulations - Advanced Options
Monitoring of Congress
