E-LAWS - official yet?

Excerpt from SLAW : One of our Legal Research and Writing professors came in to talk to me today because by her reading of s.35(1) Official Copy of the Legislation Act, it seems to say that e-Laws will still not be official until they are in the format proscribed by the regulations. (It then refers to s.41(1)). She wanted me to double check that this is a true reading of the Act. I contacted the Ministry of the Attorney General's Office and spoke to the Legislative Counsel who is very heavily involved with both the e-Laws website and the drafting of the Legislation Act. She confirmed that e-Laws will not be official until further regulations have been passed in accordance with s. 35(1) and 41(1). She did not have an ETA for when such regulations would be filed. She stated that the e-Laws website will look different on July 25, to reflect the new law, however the disclaimers will stay until regulations which bring the Legislation Act into effect have been filed.

I thought everyone should know.
Thanks!
Annette

An article from globeandmail.com

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Good site for student research - the Committees Page of Parliament. Reports created for Senate annd House Committees provide excellent backgrounders for current issues.

Water a Commodity? Read about the Great Lakes

Is water a commodity? According to Peter Lougheed, former Premier of Alberta, it is. In a 2005 speech given to Calgary's Canadian Club, Lougheed is quoted as saying:

We should not export our fresh water. We need it and we should conserve it," Lougheed said in a speech to the Calgary branch of the Canadian Club Wednesday. "We should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it."
Lougheed says Canada's water is vital to its economic success and needs to be protected, and he'd like to see an all-party declaration in the House of Commons affirming a refusal to allow bulk exports of its fresh water supply.
Lougheed says even though bulk water exports are specifically excluded from the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement, he says the United States would use that mechanism to get to the resource.

a rebuttal ( or commentary) to this argument is found in a recent Policy Initiatives Branch brief found in the DSP archive: http://policyresearch.gc.ca/doclib/SD_BN_Water%20Tradable_e.pdf.

A more thorough analysis of Great Lakes initiatives can be found in SOLEC documents, which is an international agency affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency. Our library has print copies of the latest reports:

http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/solec/index.html

Legislative Library Holdings via OurOntario

Andrew Hubbertz's Update 2007: Collection and Preservation of Web-Based Provincial/Territorial Government Publications, mentions that the Legislative Library of Ontario is planning to make public digitized versions of their collections. The funding for digitization would come from Knowledge Ontario (KO).

I e-mailed KO as to when that might happen and what the scope of the collection would entail. The response from Loren Fantin, Project Manager, OurOntario.ca ( subset of KO) was:

The government documents will be made available
through the OurOntario site - http://www.ourontario.ca.
The projected time frame is late fall. I'll send an announcement out to
various list-servs and will post the information on the Knowledge
Ontario website as well.

It would be great if the digitized collection remains permanent and covers all legislation, committee reports and other papers from at least 1980 forward. Smaller libraries then will not have to worry about keeping print copies in perpetuity for their customers. Exciting news!