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Posted by Diana on 3/22/2009, 12:03 pm, in reply to "Re: re: | Tenants' private data available on Internet "
This is all funded from Legal Aid Ontario which is there supposedly only to help low income people access legal counsel.
If you are a property owner you are NOT a low income person.
By funding landlords to fight tenants though that landlords legal clinic this is taking away money desperately needed to help the poor - the whole point of legal aid!
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: Well the only reason I can think of is that
: they pay taxes too and obviously they make
: more money than us tenants so they pay more
: taxes so they get a clinic too.
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: What I don't understand is why landlords get
: free legal help from their own government
: funded legal clinic?
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: When there are not enough resources for
: tenants in need why do landlords get free
: legal help?
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: If you own property you don't need to be
: subsidized with free legal help to fight
: your poor tenants.
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: This shows how biased the system is against
: poor tenants.
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: Hurray for you for exposing this issue!
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