Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts
to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as
to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges
to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being
denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues
to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried
to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford
to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them
to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic
technology and
new infrastructure so as
to be able
to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public
access the law society website they don't see any reference
to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able
to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able
to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.