Legal Aid in Canada 2021-22

While policy development related to criminal legal aid is a shared federal/provincial/territorial
responsibility, each province and territory is responsible for the delivery of legal aid services based on
their own policies and procedures. This report provides national level statistics4 on revenues,
expenditures, personnel, and caseloads from legal aid plans across Canada. Justice Canada has been
producing the Legal Aid in Canada report since 2016-17, and this is the sixth annual edition. This year’s
report includes data from the 2021-22 fiscal year, as well as trend data from the past five years of legal
aid annual reports