Story here.
That's right. Regular folks, who are neither rich nor poor, have the hardest time accessing justice due to its prohibitively high cost. And they're denied legal aid, bizarrely deemed to be able to afford it, while they usually cannot without going heavily into debt, often for life. This is unfair.
I notice, however, that special interest groups and individuals who want to push an extremist "progressive" agenda had, under the Liberals, no problem going to court, all the way to the Supreme Court, to get what they wanted, via the Court Challenges Program, now scrapped by the Conservatives. The CCP (funny- same initials as the Chinese Communist Party!) clearly was really designed to help the Liberals covertly force their hard-left "progressive" agenda onto Canada against the will of the people... and against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, leading to unconstitutional rulings and judicial activism. One glaring example of this was the homosexual marriage movement, which used the "progressive" activist judge-dominated courts and cited their rulings to justify their forcing of their narrow agenda all the way to the Liberals' same-sex marriage legislation undemocratically (no mandate from the people, a whipped House vote, dirty tricks and bribery) being passed into law, after having promised not to do such a thing just a few years prior.
So if there's to be any legal aid, it should be accessible not to just the poor, but the middle class as well, who clearly need all the help they can get and shouldn't have to suffer for the rest of their lives financially to get justice, as guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
And should anyone at all want to take an issue to the Supreme Court, then they should have an equal, non-discriminatory, non-political opportunity to access financial aid to do so... not just "progressive" extremists wanting to impose their radical beliefs on the rest of the country.
