Canadian Laws and Regulations with Bilingual Full-Text

A2AJ Canadian Laws provides bulk, open-access full-text legislation and regulations from Canada. Each row corresponds to a single law or regulation and contains English and French versions where both are publicly available. The dataset is maintained by Access to Algorithmic Justice (A2AJ) and was last updated on 2026-04-02.

Use Cases

• Train bilingual language models based on parallel English and French legal text.
• Analyze legislative trends and topics based on the full-text corpus of Canadian laws.
• Develop information retrieval systems for legal documents based on the structured collection of laws.
• Conduct comparative legal studies based on the availability of official bilingual versions.

Strengths

• Provides full-text legislation and regulations, offering depth for analysis.
• Contains bilingual (English and French) versions where available, supporting cross-lingual work.
• Maintained by a named organization (Access to Algorithmic Justice) with a stated update date of 2026-04-02.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and exact data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Access to Algorithmic Justice (A2AJ), building on work by the Refugee Law Lab (RLL).

Collection Method

Bulk collection of publicly available legislation and regulations.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 22:11:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada