Anita Jean of the Nor’West Community Health Centre (left) speaks while Tracey MacKinnon, John Pateman and Kate Brindley look on at a Legal Aid town hall meeting on Monday, June 3, 2019 at the Finlandia Club. (Leith Dunick, tbenewswatch.com) THUNDER BAY – Organizers of a legal-aid town hall remain hopeful the Conservative government will listen and reverse drastic funding cuts to Ontario’s legal-aid system.
The province, in its April budget, announced it was cutting $300 million from the Ministry of the Attorney General’s budget, $133 million of which was slashed from the legal-aid budget, a drop of 35 per cent.
That […]
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