Legal Aid Ontario has announced it will no longer pay outside lawyers to help defendants get bail as the organization faces a multi-million-dollar budget cut. As Sean O’Shea reports, lawyers say the provincial government’s cost-saving measures may actually increase the cost of corrections.
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