Bill No. 227 - Legal Aid Act. - 3rd Reading

CLAUDIA CHENDER « » : Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and speak to Bill No. 227, the Legal Aid Act. The NDP caucus also supports these changes.

I want to thank the staff who worked on this and the Legal Aid Commission for their hard work. We believe that this Act not only modernizes the legislation, which it needed to do, but also gives the commission more latitude to do the good work that they are doing.

We also want to thank the government for bringing in the amendment asked for by the commission, which will allow their chair to stay on a little bit longer and delay the coming into force of one of the provisions in the Act. With those few words, I'll take my seat.