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Welcome to the Open Government Pilot. This is a pilot project on the Internet undertaken by Industry Canada to provide greater access to government through information networks.

This Pilot features information about the main political bodies on Parliament Hill, and will eventually provide links to information from all government departments.

To begin your tour of Open Government, select one of the icons below to enter the specified portion of Canadian Government.

Check our list of mirror sites to see if you can get Open Government locally.

The 1995 Federal budget is available via this service.

The Senate of Canada

The Senate section provides information about the role of Senators in the Canadian Parliament and contact information for the Senators.

House of Commons

The House of Commons section provides contact information about Members of Parliament and some information about the House itself.

Independently maintained Political Party Home-pages

Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court section provides access to recent rulings of the court, information about the Justices of the Supreme Court, and historical information about the court.

Important Government documents and treaties

• 1995 Federal Budget
• Constitution Act 1982
• NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
• GATT (General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade)
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• United Nations

Government Departments

Several government departments make information available on the Internet and through the World-wide-web. Go to this section to see what information is available from government departments.

Provincial Information

Several Provincial government departments make information available on the Internet and through the World-wide-web. Go to this section to see what information is available from government departments.

The World

Information from other national governments

Special thanks to the New Broadcast Services Laboratory of the Communications Research Centre for their assistance.

You are accessing this information from one of many host sites around the Internet.

This project is still under development. See what we plan to do next

Learn to build your own WWW resources with our Open Government Pilot Developers Kit.