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RSS FeedsFord government´s sweeping cut to legal aid will disproportionately hit Toronto clinics, Parkdale site to lose $1 million
(The Star Food)

 
 

12 june 2019 19:45:05

 
Ford government´s sweeping cut to legal aid will disproportionately hit Toronto clinics, Parkdale site to lose $1 million
(The Star Food)
 


Toronto will be hit hardest by cuts to community legal clinics, with Legal Aid Ontario planning to cut almost $1 million in funding across 13 neighbourhood clinics that provide general legal services to low-income residents, as well as pull $1 million from the budget of a 14th clinic, Parkdale Community Legal Services. The news — which one critic has described as an attack on Toronto — is being communicated to the clinics Wednesday by the provincial agency, which has had to impose significant cuts after the Ford government reduced its funding for the organization by 30 per cent of the previously anticipated provincial allocation of $456 million. Toronto clinics will be disproportionately hit by the cuts in part because of how the city has changed since legal aid funding began, LAO staff told reporters at a briefing Tuesday. More and more low-income people are leaving the city and moving to the 905 region, the agency said, meaning that the clinics’ funding is no longer in line with the number of low-income residents in their neighbourhood. A number of Toronto clinics are also in proximity to each other and can share services, the agency said. The clinic cuts are on top of other reductions LAO is making internally, to its immigration and refugee services and to its certificate program, which provides private lawyers to represent people in court, in a bid to save $70 to $75 million in 2019-20.Three so-called “specialty clinics” that provide services across the province — Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, Income Security Advocacy Centre and the Canadian Environmental Law Association — will also be losing funding related to their law reform, community development and community organizing work. LAO staff said the agency’s focus is on preserving work that directly impacts clients, saying the three clinics self-reported in their annual funding applications that about 75 per cent of their activity is not direct client wo ...


 
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