Fight continues to save the “emergency room” of legal service

On Doug Kwan’s desk sit heaps of files, each representing an individual war. 

One person’s fight to avoid eviction sits cleanly compressed inside a manilla folder, directly beside another’s effort to continue getting disability assistance, money essential to putting food on the table. Each folder represents a life-changing situation for a Peel Region resident. And without Kwan and the help of Mississauga Community Legal Services, those people would be left to fight their battles alone. 

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A 30 percent slash in funding for Legal Aid Ontario means many of Peel Region’s most vulnerable residents will be cut off from access to a lawyer for help in dealing with life-changing crises.

The cuts, says the co-director of a Mississauga legal clinic, don’t just challenge the fairness of our legal system, they’ll end up costing Ontario taxpayers a lot more than they save.

Published on July 16, 2019 in The Pointer - Brampton