ranade-oss gives Canadian legal sources clearer boundaries
This fork makes it easier to find Canadian law without pretending every source can provide every kind of answer.
The change draws a useful line around CanLII: it remains a user-authorised source for metadata, citations and citator information, not a scraping target. Searches by name or topic are routed through A2AJ, with a link that lets the user continue a CanLII search directly when appropriate.
- Ontario legislation can be found through A2AJ, then retrieved from Ontario's official e-Laws service.
- Federal legislation can be found in Justice Canada's consolidated-law catalogue, then retrieved as official text.
- Source checks now show whether a saved CanLII key can actually be read, and distinguish a failed attempt from one a source does not support.
The result is a more honest research workflow: each source is used for the material it is equipped and authorised to provide.
So what Canadian legal teams and legal-product builders should care because reliable source boundaries reduce false confidence in research results.
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