GreatNorthCollective/greatnorth-canada-federal-laws-text

Great North Canada Federal Laws Text Corpus (Expanded)

235,794 training examples from the complete current body of Canadian consolidated federal Acts and Regulations.

This is a significantly expanded version of the corpus, now including:

• —All consolidated Acts
• —All consolidated Regulations
• —Both English and French versions where available
• —Better chunking optimized for LLM training

Data Characteristics

• —Section/provision-level text from official Government of Canada XML sources.
• —Rich metadata: citation, act/regulation title, jurisdiction, language, source file.
• —Bilingual (EN/FR) content.

Training Use Cases

• —Pretraining or continued pretraining of North American legal and governance models.
• —Fine-tuning for Canadian law understanding.
• —Building strong RAG systems over Canadian federal legislation and regulations.
• —Research on bilingual legal language.

Format

JSONL with one record per logical provision/section (or chunk):

{
  "text": "...clean legal text...",
  "citation": "...",
  "act_title": "...",
  "jurisdiction": "ca-federal",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "laws-lois-xml-main/...",
  "doc_type": "Consolidated Act" or "Consolidated Regulation"
}

Provenance

• —Source: Government of Canada Justice Laws Website bulk XML (via justicecanada/laws-lois-xml).
• —Processed with the Great North reproducible pipeline.
• —Raw XML preserved in source repositories for verification.

Limitations

• —Consolidated current law (as amended), not historical point-in-time versions.
• —Some very short amending provisions filtered.
• —Provincial and territorial law not included (future expansion planned).

Citation

Great North Collective. (2026). Great North Canada Federal Laws Text Corpus (Expanded) [Dataset]. Hugging Face.

Contains information from the Government of Canada (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca), used under the terms of the Open Government Licence – Canada.