In Hryniak v. Mauldin, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) indicated that "ensuring access to justice is the greatest challenge to the rule of law in Canada today" (para 1). This is a challenge we, as law students, have been called to take up.
Admittedly, singularly tackling the issue of access to justice was not the crux of my desire to become a lawyer. Yet, as time passed, my reasoning became more nuanced, primarily due to an increasing awareness that the rights of Canadians were not being addressed because they did not have the resources to access our justice system.