The creation of Canada’s first LGBTQ community legal clinic — the funding for which was announced in March by the previous provincial government — is being held up by the Progressive Conservatives, as the new government conducts a review of funding for programs. Egale, a national LGBTQ rights organization, was supposed to get funds to run the clinic as well as provide inclusivity training to Ontario’s more than 70 legal clinics. Had the money come through, the clinic was expected to be and up running this fall, likely in Toronto. Helen Kennedy, executive director of Egale, says that the organization's survey of Ontario legal clinics “revealed major gaps in services” that an LGBTQ clinic could have addressed. ( Bernard Weil / Toronto Star file photo )Now, the creation of the clinic is in doubt, as the new government has not yet committed to funding it.

Source: thestar September 26, 2018 21:00 UTC