Let me just ask you about lawyers. One of the suggestions in the paper “Reaching Equal Justice” was to make pro bono work mandatory. I know and you know lawyers who have taken on cases for which they haven't charged the client for everything that's been done. Sometimes you just try to help somebody.
What's this idea of making pro bono mandatory? I haven't practised legal aid law in Ontario in several decades, but I remember when they used to underpay us, and they took off 25% extra from the hourly rate for every hour. Supposedly that was our “contribution” to that. I wasn't too fussy about it then. I'm kind of curious as to what mandatory pro bono work implies for the legal profession.