As some members of my vast and growing audience of 7 or 8 are aware, I am Chair of the Waterloo/Kitchener Legal Aid Clinic. This extraordinary little organization provides quality legal assistance to folks who simply cannot afford lawyers. It is staffed by a handful of capable but hugely overworked professionals any one of whom could earn more money doing overflow work for a large firm but who soldier on, year after year, driven by the quaint notion that social justice is something worth pursuing. Somewhere in their upbringing, education or early experience they determined that when the least among us do better, we all do better. Would that our political masters embrace that simple, powerful idea. Some do; most do not.
I will return to this issue in future posts.
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