•   Bills (LEGISinfo)
• (2001+): provides comprehensive bill information by bringing together parliamentary documents from both chambers, includes:
  • full text of the bill in all published versions
  • information on the status of the bill
  • votes
  • debates
  • major speeches at second reading which include sponsor's and response speeches
  • clause by clause study of the bill from an appointed committee
  • stakeholders' and experts' opinion located in witness testimonies and submissions
  • legislative summaries
  • political party press releases and backgrounders
• (1994 - 2000): only limited bill information is available (bill titles, numbers, and some text of the bills at various stage)
•  Debates, Journals and Committee transcripts (House of Commons)
• Video on how to search Debates and Committee transcript
• Committee
• All works: including meetings, reports and government responses (2001+)
• Committee Reports (House of Commons, Joint and Senate): 1870+, full text from 1994+
• Library of Parliament Research Publications
• Provide concise overview of many emerging issues to help you quickly understand and narrow down your topic
• Non-partisan, reliable and timely information and analysis
• Include legislation on many major public policy topics
• Search by subject, publication type, year, author and key terms
• Publication types
• Current issue review (CIR): are "concise, descriptive commentaries on topical issues. Each paper is updated regularly and contains a discussion of the issue, a chronology of events, details of the action taken in Parliament and a select reading list"
• HillNotes: Quick reads on Canadian topics
• HillStudies are in-depth reads on topics, formerly Background Papers (Select HillStudies under Publication types)
• Background Papers (1986-2021)
• Archived Background Papers (pre-2004)
• In Briefs: are "short briefings on current issues. At times, they may service as overviews, referring readers to more substantive sources published on the same topic"
• Mini review: "are brief papers on newsworthy events or other informational matters such as court decisions, scientific advances or conference reports"
• Modular backgrounders: are "longer studies composed of stand-alone sections (modules) each of which provides a brief treatment of one aspect of a subject but also integrates with sections studying different aspects. Multi-disciplinary Modular Backgrounders will feature several authors, providing legal, economic, scientific, social science/policy perspectives on a major issue"
• Legislative Summaries: provide concise analyses of bills before Parliament
• 1997+
• 2001+
• Parliament Budget Office (PBO) reports, 2016+
• Report archive, 2008-2015
•   PARLINFO: 
  • Political parties
  • Elections and Ridings (1867+)
  • Members of Parliament
•   Reports and Government Responses (1994+)
• How Canadians govern themselves
• Our Country, our Parliament: an introduction to how Canada's Parliament works

• Policies, regulations and laws by department or agency
• Departments and Agencies
• Open Government
• Briefing Note Titles and Numbers Dataset
• Media contacts for government organizations including News Releases, Speeches and Statements and etc.
• List of institutions (Info Source): provides information about the functions, programs, activities and related information holdings of government institutions

• Prime Minister of Canada (current)
• Mandate Letters
• Former Prime Ministers' Archive (Privy Council Office)
• 1996 - present (Wayback machine)
• Statements, Speeches and Texts (1975 - 1987)
• Press release (1974 - 1983)
• Press conference - transcripts (Oct. 1975 - Dec. 1981)

• Consolidated statutes and regulations of every jurisdiction in Canada
• Annual statutes for federal, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Quebec
• Hosts a database of case commentary and case summaries by the legal community
• Books, law journals, articles, reports, and other resources

• Search by keyword or phrase and filter by jurisdiction and publication type
• Topics

• official documents presented by Ministers of the Crown which state and explain the government's policy on certain issues
• 1939 - 2014 (Archive-It, University of Toronto)
• Government of Canada Publications: search "policy" under subject for policy publications

• official documents sponsored by Ministers of the Crown which are issued by the government to invite public comment and discussion on an issue prior to policy formulation
• 1971 - 2010 (Archive-It, University of Toronto)
• Government of Canada Publications: search "policy" or "consultations" under subject for policy publications

• 1996 - 2019
• Full text
• Select "Canadian Public Document Collection" from the Collection drop-down menu
• includes publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups

• There are annual reports for departments, commissions, acts, boards, agreements and etc.
• Search the Government of Canada Publications site to find Federal government annual reports:
• Put the name of the government department in the Department/Agency field
• Annual report in the Title field
• Select Serial from the Publication type and hit search

• searches over 775 core domains at the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government

• provides analysis based on a wide range of data sources on labour, income, education, social and demographic issues
• This publication replaces Canadian Social Trends

• formerly the Policy Research Initiative
• conducts research in support of the Government of Canada’s medium term agenda
• core mandate is to advance research on emerging horizontal issues, and to ensure the effective transfer of acquired knowledge to policy-makers.

• one-stop portal for publications, reports and data sets from 7 science-based departments and agencies:
  • Canadian Agriculture Library
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada Library Services
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada Library
  • Health Library
  • National Science Library
  • Natural Resources Canada Library

• 2005 - Nov. 2007, Oct. 2013 - present (Library and Archives of Canada)
  • Browse by institution and url

• Dec. 2007 - 2015 (University of Toronto Archive-IT)
  • Browse by institution or document
  • Full-text and site searches

• Contains information on Cabinet membership, Parliamentary Secretaries and Opposition Party Critics

• a consolidation of the electronic publications provided by the Government of Canada Publications and Library and Archives Canada

• House of Commons
• Senate

• Canada's foremost journal examining economic and social policy
• aims to stimulate research and discussion of public policy problems in Canada

• search within a site or domain, e.g. cic.gc.ca for Citizenship and Immigration Canada

• Legal Deposit: includes analog and digital
• Aurora:  LAC's online catalogue of published material held in its own collection
• Search Aurora by sub-collection
• Voila: Canada's new national union catalogue replacing AMICUS

• audits federal government operations
• provides Parliament with independent information, advice, and assurance regarding the federal government’s stewardship of public funds
• comments on policy implementation are included in audits
• 1880 - 1981 (Internet Archive)
• 1879 - Fall 2012 (print)

• Mandate Letter Tracker
• Orders in Council Database

• 1944 -1979

• current
• 1841- 1998

• Provides links to both print and electronic federal parliamentary materials from 1867 onwards

• Provides links to current debates, bills, statutes, regulations, gazette and Journal for both federal and provincial governments.

• from 35th Parliament, 1st Session (Jan. 1994) +
• Official, verbatim report of daily House proceedings. Commonly referred to as Hansard.
• Search the Debates
• Paper copy can be requested from UTL Downsview available from 1875 - June 2012

• Senate: 1867 - February 27, 1996
• House of Commons: 1867 - January 17, 1994

• from 35th Parliament, 1st Session (Jan. 1994) +
• different versions of the bill
• votes
• major speeches at second reading
• coming into force data
• legislative summaries
• government press releases and backgrounders

• Journals, Debates, Committee materials and Bills
• House of Commons Committees : click to "Work" to find reports, studies and government responses

• Online: 2006/07+

• Includes election results, reports, legislation, political parties, political financing and more.

• Includes names of candidates to all the federal elections as well as a description of the ridings.
• Searchable by riding name, name of a candidate, political party, general election, and by-election, or even do a full text search on the description of a riding.

• Political parties
• Elections and ridings

• contains political party platforms since 1972

• Cumulative data: 1988 - 2011
• Publications, working papers and surveys

• Archives the websites of Canadian national political parties and a number of special interest groups since October 2005
• The Canadian Political Parties & Political Interest Group Portal (University of Waterloo)
  • Based on the Archive-It content collected by University of Toronto Library
  • October 2005 - March 2015
  • Basic and advanced search (including words in proximity to each other)
  • Graphing trends over time

• Canada's climate plan
• Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy
• Discussion Paper (2022)
• 2020 expert assessment of carbon pricing systems
• Economic Study of the Canadian Plastic Industry, Markets and Waste

• is comprised of:
• The USPA Permafrost Alert Program (2011 - Present)
• Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology (1900-2011)
• Antarctic Bibliography (1950-2011)

• Canada's submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change

• select "NRTEE- National Round Table on the Environment & the Economy" from the Collection dropdown menu

• Includes budgets, estimates, public accounts, and annual reports

• online tool to visualize financial data of the government of Canada
• Search by organization
• Create your own report
• Also included: Analyze Data by Subject Area, Explore Government of Canada Management data, Analyze specific sections of Government of Canada Publications such as Estimates and Public Accounts

• Health Policy Research 
• Health Infobase: Health data in Canada
• Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data Sources and Surveillance Activities

• Custom Search Engines and other resources
• Public Health Grey Literature Research Guide

• includes publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups
• Select Canadian Public Documents Collection from the Collection drop-down menu

• Programs and policy development
• Canada Communicable Disease Report
  • 2004+
  • 1975 - 1991
• PHAC Periodicals and Serials archive

• produces a range of in-depth analytical reports as well as summary reports called Analysis in Brief, both of which are derived from CIHI's extensive information holdings and data analysis activities
• Research Analytic Files (Chass)
• National Health Expenditure Database (1975 - current): National and provincial data, summary tables and detailed reports

• Publications

• Publications

• Grey Matters! Finding Grey Literature

• Health & Long-Term Care
• Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

• National Housing Strategy
• National Housing Strategy resources
• Housing markets, data and research
• Housing Market Information Portal: offers latest housing market data for Canada
• Provincial and territorial resources
• Provincial and territorial fact sheets for condominiums
• Affordable housing programs across Canada
• Provincial/territorial housing co-op regulations
• Administration of social housing
• National Occupancy Standard
• Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI)
• Knowledge products by program
• Historical housing policy

• Research & Reports: includes homelessness data
• Toronto Housing Data Hub

• The Tribunal renders decisions on the complaints referred by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to protect individuals from discrimination
• 1979+

• An invaluable source of information for Ontario citizens, legal practitioners, students and researchers interested in the study of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, sex and disability
• 2000+ (CanLII)
• 1962-2002 (Internet Archive)

• Canadian Human Rights Commission Dialogue Session with Representatives from Racialized Communities on Advancing Racial Equality in Canada (2020)
• Anti-racism work

• Guide to Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

• Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy
• Discrimination and hate crime statistics

• 2019
• 2020
• 2021

• Hire through the Atlantic Immigration Program

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Indian Residential Schools
• Indigenous Peoples and Lands
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Research and Statistics
• Water in First Nations communities
• First Nations profiles

• Treaties, agreements and negotiations

• Indian Affairs Annual reports (1864 - 1990)
• Treaties, surrenders and agreements
• Indian Residential School records
• Indian Reserves - Western Canada

• Final report
• Database: includes intervenor Project submissions, RCAP publications, research reports and hearing transcripts

• RCAP hearing and round table discussion transcripts online: (Our Legacy, University of Saskatchewan Archives)

1. by subject

• select University of Saskatchewan Archives on the left of the screen
• click on Subject
• select the Royal commission (2548 documents)
• click on subject again to see a list of 19 subject headings for the RCAP transcripts

2.  by name of the person interviewed

• get the name of the person from the specific citations provided in the Report of the Royal commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• enter the name of the person in the search box of the Our Legacy site
• select "names" under the field and search

3.  by date of the interview

• get the date of the interview from the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
• enter the date (May 6, 1992) in the Our Legacy search box and retrieve the desired transcript

• Interim report
• Summary of the Final report

• The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation was created after the TRC completed its work in 2015

• Indian Residential School records
• Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories (1907)
• Canada's residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• v. 1. The history. Part 1, origins to 1939 -- The history. Part 2, 1939 to 2000
• v. 2. The Inuit and northern experience
• v. 3. The Métis experience
• v. 4. The missing children and unmarked burials report
• v. 5. The legacy
• v. 6. Reconciliation
• They came for the children : Canada, aboriginal peoples, and the residential schools
• Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (Algoma University)

• Includes resources for United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, North America, Central America and Circumpolar

• Volume I: United Kingdom and Canada
• Volume II: Indian acts and amendments, 1868-1975
• Volume III: Provincial legislation - pre- and post-confederation

• Provides a consolidation, or updated version, of the federal Acts and regulations of Canada

• provides links to parliamentary materials for all Canadian jurisdictions

• includes links and description about the Cabinet, Parliamentary and Coming into force stages.

• Notice and proposed regulations
• Regulatory Impact Analysis Statements (RIA)
• Official regulations

• Canadian Gallup Poll
• Environics
• Ipsos Canada

• 1964-1986
• 1987-1990
• 1990-1993
• 1993 -2002

• Public opinion research helps the government to better understand Canadian society and to identify citizens' needs and expectations. It is used, among other applications, to:
  • assess the public's response to proposals or to possible changes or initiatives
  • assess the effectiveness of policies, programs and services
  • measure progress in service improvement
  • evaluate the effectiveness of communication activities such as advertising
  • plan and evaluate marketing initiatives

• provides access to a list of consultations from selected government departments and agencies

• also known as Commissions of Inquiry, are appointed by Cabinet to inquire into and report on matters of national significance
• findings are reported to the Prime Minister and Cabinet and issued as an official report
• Index to Federal Royal Commissions: Search Aurora  (see Search Aurora by sub-collection)
• Commissions of Inquiry Online: full text of current Royal Commissions
• search the library catalogue for a copy of the Royal Commission report
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• Final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-medical Use of Drugs (1973)

• Autism
• Child Care
• Ontario's Social Assistance System
• Resources for LGBT2SQ+ Ontario's
• Services for Persons with Disabilities
• Social Assistance

• Census Program Datasets: a multi-census year data portal providing selected datasets from 1991 to 2011 Census as well as the 2011 National Household Survey.
• Analytical studies
• Real-time data table for 21 economic and social time series (CANSIM)
• National Household Survey
• Census of Canada 1851 - 1996 (Internet Archive) Report Locator

• The Map and Data Library owns and subscribes to many surveys and data sets. Some resources may have a cost associated.

• Find statistics and data by department or agency

• A project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries
• Access geospatial datasets licensed by individual library
• Contains census and administrative boundaries, environment and conservation, transportation networks and etc

• immigration statistics in the Sessional Papers 1869-1894
• census of Canada Report Locator 1851-1951

• 1867 to present
• The Speech from the Throne officially opens every new session of Parliament. The speech sets out the broad goals and directions of the government and its strategy to accomplish those goals.

• From 1812 on, some are full-text

• Gender-Based Violence Knowledge Centre
• Provincial and territorial resources on gender-based violence
• Key statistics on gender-based violence in Canada
• Intimate partner violence

• House of Commons proceedings
• Supreme Court Hearings
• In Committee from the House and Senate

• provides access to 146 years of patent descriptions and images