Legal-AI skills in 🇨🇦 Canada

40 skills, across 12 practice areas.

Quebec housing rights (tenants & landlords)

MITCanadaReal estate

Quebec residential tenancy — the rights and obligations of tenants (lessees) and landlords (lessors) under the Civil Code of Québec, adjudicated by the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL, formerly the Régie du logement). A query-answering reference distilled from Éducaloi's English renting capsules, quebec.ca, and tal.gouv.qc.ca (fetched 2026-07) via multi-agent research. Covers: the lease (the mandatory TAL form, verbal leases, French-language rule, void clauses, the lowest-rent-in-12-months disclosure notice and the 10-day/2-month deadlines to contest); money (only first month's rent may be required — security/key deposits and demanded post-dated cheques are ILLEGAL; what a landlord may and may not ask for; rent due the 1st, late the 2nd; the 3-week rule; paying before judgment stops eviction; co-tenancy where JOINT is the default and solidary must be written in); discrimination (Charter grounds, CDPDJ); rent increases and automatic renewal (the 3-6 month notice window, the 1-month reply where SILENCE = ACCEPTANCE, the landlord applying to the TAL to fix rent, CPI-based criteria); assignment vs subletting (assignment releases you and since Feb 2024 a landlord refusing it cancels the lease; sublet needs a serious reason; 15 days, silence = consent); living in the dwelling (landlord's habitability/peaceful-enjoyment/guarantee-of-use duties; the tenant's duty of prudence and diligence and NOT to change the form or destination/use of the unit — a two-condition test of consent AND zoning; access notice of 24h/10 days with visits 9-9 and work 7-7; repairs and repair-and-deduct; heating where ~21C is a TAL practice standard not a statutory minimum; poor conditions and the unfit-dwelling recourse; pets, where no-pet clauses ARE valid in Quebec); ending a lease (keeping repossession vs eviction vs termination-for-fault distinct — notice periods, silence = REFUSAL, the landlord bears the burden and must apply to the TAL, the eviction indemnity formula, senior protectio

Severance Package Analysis Report

MITCanadaEmployment

Analyze severance packages and termination agreements for fairness and negotiation opportunities

Skill : éligibilité CDAE-IA (crédit d'impôt)

MITCanadaTax

Analyse d'éligibilité au crédit d'impôt CDAE-IA (Développement des affaires électroniques intégrant l'intelligence artificielle, Québec) et estimation du crédit. Fournit les conditions d'admissibilité (société et employés), la méthode d'analyse Oui/Non/À déterminer, et la méthode de calcul du crédit. Utiliser lorsque l'humain demande une évaluation d'éligibilité CDAE-IA ou un calcul du crédit possible.

Statutory Interpretation — Canadian Doctrine

MITCanadaGeneral practice

Doctrine of statutory interpretation in Canadian and BC law — the modern approach mandated by Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes and reaffirmed in Vavilov (text, context, purpose read together), plain-meaning and purposive analysis, interpretive presumptions (against absurdity, in favour of consistent meaning, against redundancy, against retroactivity, in favour of liberty), interpretive rules (ejusdem generis, expressio unius, noscitur a sociis, generalia specialibus non derogant), extrinsic aids (Hansard, prior enactments, related legislation), bilingual interpretation of federal statutes, and the treatment of statutory definitions and interpretive provisions. ALWAYS trigger when: user is arguing over what a statute means, drafting submissions relying on a statutory provision, encountering an ambiguous provision, dealing with RTA interpretation battles, or asking "what does section X mean". Directly useful for RTA arguments — the RTA is remedial legislation and attracts a purposive, tenant-protective interpretation.

Supreme Court Civil Litigation Counsel

MITCanadaLitigation

Use when BC superior-court drafting or JR research is needed. Elite SRL-safe counsel framework with locked forms and fail-closed citations.

The Civil Code of Québec

MITCanadaContracts

The Civil Code of Québec (CCQ, in force 1 January 1994, replacing the 1866 Civil Code of Lower Canada) — Quebec's civil-law jus commune and the foundation of its private law. A navigation-and-orientation reference verified against the official consolidated text on LégisQuébec (retrieved 2026-07). Covers: what the Code is and the Preliminary Provision that makes it the general law of Québec, operating in harmony with the Charter of human rights and freedoms and serving as the foundation of all other laws; why Quebec is a CIVIL-LAW jurisdiction and how that differs from the common law of the other provinces (codified general principles reasoned deductively rather than binding precedent/stare decisis, no equity/trusts-by-tradition, different vocabulary); the map of all ten Books with article ranges — One Persons (1-364), Two The Family (365-612, incl. family patrimony), Three Successions (613-898), Four Property (898.1-1370, opening with 'animals are not things'), Five Obligations (1371-2643, the largest — contract formation, civil liability, and the nominate contracts incl. sale, lease at 1851-1978, employment, mandate, insurance), Six Prior Claims and Hypothecs (2644-2802), Seven Evidence (2803-2874.1), Eight Prescription (2875-2933, incl. the 3-year personal action and 10-year judgment rules), Nine Publication of Rights (2934-3075.1, the land register and RDPRM), Ten Private International Law (3076-3168); the Book/Title/Chapter/Section/Division hierarchy and why division scope matters; how to read an article's legislative history (1991, c. 64 enactment, amendments, and decimal numbers signalling later insertions); the equally-authoritative French and English versions; public order vs suppletive rules; and common cross-Book chains for real problems. Use to find where a Quebec legal topic lives in the Code, decode an article citation, understand the civil-law approach, or orient before researching on LégisQuébec/CanLII.

The Criminal Code of Canada (C-46)

MITCanadaCriminal

The Criminal Code of Canada (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) as a navigable map — how the statute is organized and how to find things in it. Built by parsing the official consolidated text (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca, current to 2026-05-26), with Part ranges extracted programmatically from the body and cross-checked against the TOC. Covers: the full Part structure I–XXVIII with section ranges (the substantive Parts I–XIII vs the procedural/sentencing Parts XIV–XXVIII), and why decimal Parts and sections are insertions so section numbers cannot be arithmetic (320.4 comes after 320.104); the CLASSIFICATION system that drives everything — indictable vs summary vs hybrid, where 'hybrid' appears zero times in the Code and is expressed structurally as 'indictable … or … punishable on summary conviction' (345 occurrences), the s. 787 default summary penalty ($5,000 / two years less a day, the penitentiary-vs-jail line), and the s. 786(2) 12-month limitation that applies only to summary proceedings, can be waived by agreement, and has no indictable counterpart; general principles (s. 2 definitions, the s. 8(3) preservation of common-law defences against s. 9's bar on common-law offences, parties s. 21, counselling s. 22, accessory s. 23, attempts s. 24 where factual impossibility is no defence and the preparation line is a question of law); defences (self-defence s. 34 and its nine factors, defence of property s. 35, duress s. 17 whose 'immediate'/'present' words were struck in Ruzic but still print, necessity as pure common law, provocation s. 232 as a partial defence narrowed in 2015, mental disorder s. 16 and NCRMD, extreme intoxication s. 33.1 rewritten after Brown); where offences live (assault 265 and why sexual assault 271 has no separate definition, theft 322/334, break and enter 348, fraud 380, mischief 430 incl. computer data); procedure (the s. 493.1 release principle, s. 515 bail and its three grounds, the s. 535 preliminary inquiry narrowed to 14+ years on request, the s.

The Municipal Code of Québec (C-27.1)

MITCanadaAdministrative

The Municipal Code of Québec (CQLR c. C-27.1) — the general statute for local (mainly rural) municipalities and regional county municipalities (RCMs/MRCs). Parsed from the current official LégisQuébec consolidation (retrieved 2026-07). THE SCOPE RULE (art. 1): the Code applies to every municipality subject to any inconsistent charter provision, but does NOT apply to a municipality governed by the Cities and Towns Act (c. C-19) or to northern, Cree or Naskapi villages — so Municipal Code and Cities and Towns Act are parallel regimes, not layers; art. 2 lets a municipality migrate by letters patent, and art. 4 deems a C-19 city to be a Code municipality for RCM purposes. THE ZONING TRAP: land-use planning and zoning are NOT in this Code — they are in the Act respecting land use planning and development (c. A-19.1). Verified: all 10 cross-references to A-19.1 in the Code are incidental (RCM governance, voting thresholds, withdrawal rights); none confers a planning power. But the ENFORCEMENT seam runs back here — art. 492 inspection, art. 455 fines, art. 437.3 access prohibition and arts. 689-692 annulment all apply to by-laws adopted under A-19.1. Covers: the by-law lifecycle (art. 445's notice of motion, draft filing, passing at a different sitting no earlier than the second day, and the rule that contravening those paragraphs ENTAILS THE NULLITY of the by-law; art. 450 coming into force on publication; art. 451/431 publication by public notice posted at two places; art. 455 fine ceilings of $1,000/$2,000 first offence and $2,000/$4,000 subsequent); contesting a by-law (arts. 689-692 — annulment for illegality by any interested party on a $50 deposit, PRESCRIBED BY THREE MONTHS FROM PASSING, appeal to the Court of Appeal within 30 days); the council (art. 149 public sittings, art. 150's statutory question period whose modalities but not existence may be shaped by by-law, art.

The Quebec legal system — access, courts, and finding the law

MITCanadaLitigation

How the Quebec legal system works and how to get into it — legal aid, municipal courts, how regulations are made, why LégisQuébec is authoritative, and the 1994 Civil Code changeover. Quoted from the official LégisQuébec texts (à jour 1 April 2026, retrieved 2026-07) of four statutes: A-14 (Act respecting legal aid), c-72.01 (Act respecting municipal courts), R-18.1 (Regulations Act), R-2.2.0.0.2 (Act respecting the Compilation of Québec Laws and Regulations), plus CCQ-1992 (implementation of the Civil Code reform). LEGAL AID (A-14): the two independent tests — financial (gratuitous where income/liquidities/assets are below the regulated level, with last-resort-assistance recipients automatically eligible, vs contributory where only income is tested) and subject matter (indictable and youth matters automatic; summary/penal conditional on imprisonment, loss of livelihood, best interests or interests of justice; family, youth protection, tutorship, designated benefit appeals; residual liberty and livelihood valves); minors free regardless of means for all services; exclusions (defamation as plaintiff, elections, parking) and the s. 4.11 subsidiarity rule making legal aid a last resort behind insurance, unions and other services; the s. 69 private-bar diversion; that s. 8 means losing still exposes you to the other side's costs; the s. 52 right to choose your own lawyer only if they accept the regulated tariff; the 30-day review under s. 74 which is final and without appeal under s. 79; a third party's 15-day right to contest your eligibility; and four free hours for victims of sexual or domestic violence regardless of eligibility. NOTE the Act contains NO dollar thresholds and no indexation clause — all delegated to regulation.

User Request

MITCanadaRegulatory

[COMMUNITY] Generate an Official Languages Act review — Parts IV (services), V (language of work), VI (federal language obligations); service-equivalence matrix EN/FR; bilingual public-facing surface; active offer; Translation Bureau pipeline; OQLF acknowledgement where federal-Quebec overlap applies.

User Request

MITCanadaConstitutional

[COMMUNITY] Generate a Canada Charter rights design review — s.2 (expression and association), s.7 (life, liberty, security of person), s.8 (search and seizure), s.15 (equality) — applying Oakes proportionality framing to system design with mitigation tracker and DOJ counsel sign-off block.

User Request

MITCanadaRegulatory

[COMMUNITY] Generate a Canada FITAA (Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act, Bill C-70 2024) compliance assessment — activity scoping, arrangement register design, public vs protected views, Commissioner liaison protocol, Charter §2 risk register.

User Request

MITCanadaRegulatory

[COMMUNITY] Generate a Canada Security of Information Act handling plan — Special Operational Information (SOI) register, marking and handling matrix, transmission channels, compartments and need-to-know, destruction and sanitisation, CSIS Act §16 and §19 coordination, RCMP NSP liaison, breach response, personnel reliability prerequisites.

What is Lease Arbitration?

Apache-2.0CanadaReal estate

Use when drafting a renewal option clause with rent arbitration, choosing between baseball and conventional arbitration, structuring arbitrator selection procedures, resolving a fair market rent dispute on renewal, or testing an arbitration clause for enforceability.

Workplace Accommodation Request Package

MITCanadaEmployment

Build and navigate workplace accommodation requests (disability, religious, medical)

Workplace Investigation Preparation Report

MITCanadaEmployment

Prepare for workplace HR or third-party investigations