If I could just correct your question—or perhaps my answer wasn't sufficiently clear—what I said was that some of the lawyers who do the work regard it as charity work. There are many lawyers who are quite dependent on the legal aid program. We don't know and can't track in Legal Aid Ontario what the average net income of a legal aid lawyer is, but we hear anecdotally that there are a lot of lawyers who are really netting between $40,000 to $60,000 a year from full-time legal aid practices.
On October 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.