Justice committee  I would like to add one thing too. I would also say that our students do incredibly important, serious work across areas of practice. We have students who represent clients who are making refugee claims and say that if they're deported they're facing death in their country of o

Justice committee  I think Ms. Taman was responding to our submissions, and as my colleague Ms. Johnson said in her remarks, our preference would be to use the wording we provided. If that is of concern to the committee, then yes, we would agree that there could be a schedule of offences that the c

Justice committee  Maybe I'll start, and then Doug and Suzanne can add. I guess I'd say a few things. It's important to understand that we're speaking from the perspective of the student legal aid clinics in Ontario, a province that has quite a robust provincial legal aid system. In fact, they are

Justice committee  The programs have evolved a lot. Part of the reason we spent so much time in our submission talking about the level of supervision and the training is to highlight that when a client comes to us for legal assistance, they're not just working with a law student who is out there on

Justice committee  Thank you, Doug. We'd like to talk first and foremost about the devastating impact the bill would have for the clients we work with at the SLASS clinics. The clients we serve live in deep and persistent poverty. In addition to whatever presenting legal issue has brought them to