" Every hour a lawyer puts in on Legal Aid rates is an hour in which that lawyer is subsidizing the poor and less fortunate."???
subsidizing???

Knowledge is important!

"The legal aid tariff is a regulation setting out the compensation for lawyers who provide services to low-income clients. It sets hourly rates, and also establishes the maximum number of hours that Legal Aid Ontario pays a lawyer for specific types of proceedings."
"The legal aid tariff reflects the fees customarily paid by a client of modest means."
https://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/info/tariff_billing.asp