Legal-Aid town hall protests provincial cuts

Legal-Aid town hall protests provincial cuts

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 […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.