CanLII
CanLII is a large, multi-jurisdictional, and bilingual national legal information institute that comprehensively covers Canada's federal and provincial jurisdictions. It hosts more than 300 databases of legislation and case law, making it the go-to free source for Canadian primary law in both English and French.
Its CanLII Connects facility adds thousands of commentaries on Canadian court decisions, which can be useful context alongside the raw judgments. Access to read the material is free, but CanLII's terms place restrictions on bulk reuse and redistribution, so it is better suited to targeted retrieval than to wholesale harvesting into a commercial index.
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