ca-eli-mcp 0.1.0

MCP server for Canadian federal legislation (Justice Laws Website) with verifiable citations.

ca-eli-mcp

MCP server for Canadian federal legislation via the Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca), the Department of Justice Canada's official source for consolidated Acts and regulations. Bilingual (English/French).

What this is not

• No free-text search - the Justice Laws Website has no search API of its own. This connector is by-code only (the same limitation as ie-eli-mcp for Ireland): you need to already know the code (e.g. "C-46" for the Criminal Code) or a short title to look one up.
• Federal only - provincial and territorial legislation is out of scope.
• No case law - CanLII's terms of service forbid bulk redistribution and its content API requires a per-identity key, which breaks the zero-cloud pattern this connector otherwise follows. Not attempted here.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
ca_get_document	Metadata (title, in-force status, last-consolidated date) for one act or regulation
ca_get_text	Full consolidated XML text of the same document

Every response carries lex_uri (the XML source), source_url (the public HTML page), and human_readable_citation (e.g. "Criminal Code (C-46)").

Install

pip install ca-eli-mcp

Configuration

Env var	Default
CA_ELI_CACHE_DIR	~/.matematic/cache/ca-eli
CA_ELI_AUDIT_DIR	~/.matematic/audit
CA_ELI_BASE_URL	https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

License

Apache-2.0 (code). Justice Laws Website content is Government of Canada material (see SOURCES.md).