What happened is that the money that was received by LSS, our legal services society, was vastly reduced. Their budget was cut dramatically. They had to decide what priority areas to put that remaining money into. They put it where they knew they would be sued right away, and they left the areas where they thought, “Well, we won't be sued right away. We'll see what happens.”
To put it crudely, that's what happened, and that is still what happens. When they are looking at their budget every year, they know that the family pot of money is the only money they can play with in any real sense. There were cuts. They totally eliminated poverty law services, so they went from serving over 40,000 people a year in poverty law to serving zero. Other provinces still maintain those poverty law services, but B.C. has none. They eliminated that one, which they had no constitutional obligation to do—or didn't think they did—and they cut back family law severely and kept only the bare constitutional minimum.