As we near nine months since the emergence of COVID-19 in
Ontario, The Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General for Ontario,
recently reflected on the pace of change that resulted within the
legal system.
The Empire Club of Canada hosted Downey on December 3, 2020, for
a (virtual) conversation with Vivene Salmon, Past President of the
Canadian Bar Association for 2019-2020. The topic for discussion:
how breakthroughs in moving legal services online during COVID-19
have reset Ontarians' expectations for how justice can be
done.
Speaking to an audience that included many who were not lawyers,
Downey described his experience in overseeing the recent
"quantum leap" forward in the way the legal system in the
province operates.
