Thank you. So if someone qualifies for legal aid, then the Legal Aid Commission, if they don't have staff lawyers, can contract outside lawyers. So we haven't been looking at increases in legal aid. And as well, many of these individuals who are coming up from the south don't access -- who are arrested for these drug crimes don't access our legal aid. They have high-priced lawyers in major centres. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Committee Motion 6-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Legal Aid Services - Justice, Carried
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Committee Motion 6-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Legal Aid Services - Justice, Carried
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