Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are attempting to eradicate many of the shortfalls. As you are aware, there are legal aid plans in serious financial difficulty across Canada. It is a nation-wide problem. Territory-wide we have met with the federal Minister of Justice, the Honourable Martin Cauchon, on October 16th to convey the problems and concerns that because we are a small northern jurisdiction we do have other problems that are so different from the rest of Canada. That was conveyed to the federal Minister. He acknowledged that so we will continue to see how we may be able to improve the level of legal aid services in the Northwest Territories Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Roger Allen on Question 405-14(5): Lack Of Legal Aid Resources
In the Legislative Assembly on October 25th, 2002. See this statement in context.
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Question 405-14(5): Lack Of Legal Aid Resources
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 24th, 2002
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