Canada has a federal level.
Canada . Pursuant to the British North America Act , on July 1 , 1867 , the colonies of Canada , New Brunswick , and Nova Scotia joined to form the semi-autonomous federal Dominion of Canada . The country is officially bilingual at the federal level . The Canadian Bill of Rights ( Déclaration canadienne des droits ) is a federal statute and bill of rights enacted by Parliament of Canada on August 10 , 1960 . The Canadian Bill of Rights remains in effect , but its widely acknowledged ineffectiveness arises in large part to its character as a federal statute only -- although as to Canadian federal law , the Bill of Rights has subsequently acquired through judicial interpretation a quasi-constitutional status through the paramountcy doctrine .