All of our programming at Justice is to try to take away a barrier to access to justice. We want everyone to have equal opportunity to access. We know that economically disadvantaged Canadians face a barrier to getting access to a lawyer due to their economic situation. Therefore, we want to provide legal aid to at least have some kind of consistency so that everyone would have access to a lawyer to help them move through the process. We recognize, due to financial eligibility tests and merit tests, that not all cases would merit a legal aid lawyer, and that there are some issues at this time. Basically, we're trying to help economically disadvantaged Canadians get access to the justice system.
On December 8th, 2016. See this statement in context.