I have two views on this. One is that I think lawyers should make an appropriate wage or tariff on legal aid. My second view is that, as a legal aid program, the primary responsibility is to use dollars as effectively and efficiently as you can. It is not within the mandate of a legal aid program to ensure that, overall, the bar is doing well. However, it is within the mandate of the legal aid program to ensure that there is a sufficient pool of lawyers to do the work for the legal aid program.
On February 9th, 2017. See this statement in context.