WAIT! WHAT? BACK TO 2014 FUNDING? – “The Ontario government cut $133 million from legal aid in 2019, amounting to 30 percent of the LAO budget. Legal Aid Ontario is not sustainable in the trajectory that it appears to be at present. FOLA is asking the provincial government to increase annual spending on Legal Aid Ontario to $480 million, up from $350 million, which would restore funding to its 2014 level. The federation also wants the threshold increased for legal aid eligibility, an increase in lawyer tariff rates, more modernization, and improved data collection.”