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title: CanLex MCP
sdk: docker
app_port: 7860
pinned: false
---

# CanLex MCP

A remote [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for
Canadian legal research. It exposes four read-only tools over streamable HTTP:

- **canlex_search_legislation** — hybrid (BM25 + semantic) search with a
  cross-encoder reranker over federal border, customs, criminal, drug,
  food/health, labour and privacy legislation, CBSA D-Memoranda, Treasury Board
  collective agreements, and National Joint Council directives.
- **canlex_get_section** — fetch one provision verbatim by Act and section.
- **canlex_list_acts** — list the corpus and its currency.
- **canlex_case** — live CanLII case citator (citation graph for a case URL).

Retrieval runs fully locally inside the container and needs no API key. The
optional case citator reads a CanLII key from the `CANLII_API_KEY` environment
variable.

Add this Space's `/mcp` URL as a custom connector in any Claude client.