I'm not saying that the current framework is akin to walking and chewing gum at the same time. It probably allows a consultant to do transactional-level work, application-level work. To get to that next tier, what we really need when we're talking about 320 hours.... For example, I did an entire course on legal research when I went to law school. To get to that next level, we would need substantive legal courses in legal research, tribunal process and procedure, Canadian criminal law, administrative principles, oral and written advocacy, and probably conflicts of law. That's just off the top of my head, but it has to be well beyond six months.
If the paralegals are at two years, it would probably take about two years of substantive legal education to get to the point of tribunal representation or significant, direct, related experience.