Canada has an access to justice crisis: most people can’t afford a lawyer and don’t know how to get help when they have legal problems.
In 2013, the Canadian Bar Association released the Equal Justice Report, an important milestone in access to justice advocacy. In a unified voice, the legal profession detailed the causes of the crisis, the steps needed to address it, and set ambitious advocacy goals for 2020. However, seven years later, we’ve made little progress towards these goals.