Use Legislative Watch to keep up to date on bills

Progress of Bills content

Progress of Bills documents –  a summary of the bill, a list of all statutes affected by the bill, the status of the bill, and links to the full text of the bill.
Legislation documents – links to all pending legislation affecting an Act.
Alert Services – services that notify you of new activity in the progress of a bill (including in-force status of sections) so you can monitor an Act and get notified of changes to all bills that may affect it.

Access Legislative Watch

Sign in to Westlaw Canada.
Go to
Finding Tools
and select
Legislative Watch
.
Go to
Progress of Bills
for the list of available bills.
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The Progress of Bills content is organized by jurisdiction.

Search Legislative Watch

Go to the search bar, enter your search words, then select
Search
.
Browse your list of results to find the bill you're looking for.
Filter your list by selecting options in the
Narrow
column.
Select a title from the list to open the Progress of Bills document.

Progress of Bills document

Do a search or select a jurisdiction from the Legislative Watch main page and then select a bill to open the Progress of Bills document.
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Bills are listed alphabetically for each jurisdiction.
Go to
Bill Tracker Alert Service
on the toolbar to set up an alert service to be notified of any changes to the bill.
The full citation of the bill and the session of parliament is listed at the top of the document before the title.
Go to
Commons
to access the stages of the bill. Select one of the links to go to that version of the bill on the government site.
Go to
Statutes Affected
for a list of all statutes affected by the bill. Select one of the links to get the full text of the statute.
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The link takes you to the first section of the Act but you can select
Browse All
to get the full Act.
Go to
Summary
to get the summary that is pulled from the introduction of the bill in the legislature.
note
Thomson Reuters creates a summary for bills that don't have one.
Go to
Currency
to view how current the information in the bill is.

Legislation document

To open a legislation document, go to the
Statutes Affected
section in the Progress of Bills document and select a statute.
Go to
Statute Monitor Alert Service
on the toolbar to set up an alert service to be notified of any changes to the Act.
Select
Pending Legislation for this Act
to get a list of bills related to the Act that are live matters.
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Only Acts that have pending legislation will have this link.