Parliamentary Research - Legislative Process

Legislative Process Library Workshop Slides - Nov 2022

Parliament

• Canadian Parliament - House of Commons
• Canadian Parliament - Senate 
• House of Commons – Procedural Info: Canadian Parliamentary System
• Canada's System of Government - Constitutional Monarchy 

Tracing Bills

How Parliament Works - How a Bill becomes Law

LEGISInfo -  primary source of information regarding legislation before Parliament, bill information available from 2001-present.

Legislative Summaries - Concise analyses of certain bills before Parliament by the Library of Parliament writtent for MPs and Senators.

House of Commons

• House of Commons Hansard - verbatim record of everything said in the House of Commons, also know as the Debates
• House of Commons Committee Work and Reports

Senate

• Senate Hansard -  verbatim record of everything said in the Senate, also know as the Debates
• Senate Committees Studies & Bills

Historical

Parliamentary Historical Resources (1867-1993) - search archival fulltext of bills, committees, debates and votes for both the House of Commons and Senate

Acts/Statutes 

• Justice Laws - Annual Statutes 
• Canada Gazette Part III: Acts of Parliament 

Parliamentarians

Parlinfo -  information about all senators and members of Parliament in office since 1867; recorded votes; Bills Introduced in the House of Commons and Amended by the Senate (1960-present); departmental information; committee membership and other information related to parliamentary history.