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This Web site is dedicated to Canadian Legislative Bijuralism. It is offered as a resource and as a place to share and promote knowledge in this field. This site offers a range of reference materials that shed light on some of the issues and challenges raised in context of legislative bijuralism.

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Royal Assent of the 3rd Harmonization Bill

Bill S-3, A third Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law, received Royal Assent on November 29, 2011 (S.C. 2011, c. 21).

This Act (short title: Federal Law–Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 3) came into force the same day. It harmonized 12 statutes, including the Canada Business Corporations Act, the Canada Cooperatives Act and the Expropriation Act.

An online version of Bill S-3 is available at www.parl.gc.ca.