Legal Aid to stop taking on new immigration and refugee cases Tuesday after Ontario budget cut

The head of Legal Aid Ontario says a funding cut from the provincial government means the agency’s lawyers will stop accepting most new immigration and refugee clients beginning Tuesday.

Legal Aid CEO David Field says in a memo to staff today that the province has told the agency it can only use federal funding to cover new immigration and refugee services this year. That federal funding totals between $13 million and $16.5 million, short of Legal Aid Ontario’s projected costs of between $30 million to $34 million on the services for the year.Field says the agency will honour clients who are already being served and will help some additional clients in limited circumstances.

In its budget last week, the Progressive Conservative government eliminated the legal aid funding for refugee and immigration law services – a move lawyers with the organization called a “horrific” decimation. The province is reducing funding to the organization by 30 per cent, meaning it will receive $133 million less in this fiscal year.

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Good, glad to see things moving in the right direction for once. Next step, vote out Trudeau!

This is just short-sighted, founded in identity politics and panders to the worst of us... Ford wants us to not care about the less fortunate... PC voters... do you care about anyone but yourself?

“The province’s unilateral and abrupt end to this critical legal services funding will put people’s lives at risk. It will also throw the justice system into chaos,” it reads. “This is a crisis. The effects of this decision will be immediate, catastrophic and irreversible.”

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Fantastic. What a completely stupid way to spend taxpayer money. Come illegally, get 100% funding to live here, and get free legal assistance to continue abusing our generous system? Ridiculous.

It's sad, but the priority should be for the Canadians. Lawyers are free to donate their own time and money...taxpayers have had enough.

Legal Aid should never have been used for immigration and refugee cases to start with. It is a misuse of the funds provided by taxpayers.

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Tax payers shouldnt be paying for this, the Feds need to fix the mess they created.

The definition of a heartless policy. This OntarioPCParty government is cruel beyond belief. onpoli

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