I would say maybe one thing, which is that there's a tiny silver lining to the cuts in legal aid in B.C., because other services have grown up to try to cover the gap. They haven't done that, but if we had legal aid back, it would provide a much more fulsome system than we had before. For example, there are the legal advocates, lay people who provide legal information and who can provide that more holistic look that some people may have been looking for from their MLAs. If lawyers could actually deal with the legal problems and the advocates could do what they do best, which is to coordinate housing and social assistance and all these other pieces that could come together, there would be better solutions to the problems than there were before.
On February 2nd, 2017. See this statement in context.