federal_law_search

Full-text search across the English consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada (the Justice Canada repository, Open Government Licence - Canada): each hit is a section (or schedule, preamble, order) with its Act or regulation, section number, marginal note and a short excerpt. Federal law only, not B.C. law. A convenience consolidation, not the official version. Use federal_law_section for the full text of a hit.

Cost: 2 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• query (string, required): min length 2, max length 120
• kind (act, regulation, optional)
• phrase (boolean, optional): default false
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 25, default 10
• offset (integer, optional): min 0, max 1000, default 0

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/federal_law_search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"..."}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool federal_law_search with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"federal_law_search","arguments":{"query":"..."}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.