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Health & Healthcare

Drugs and addiction platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC
  • Hold landlords liable for drugs produced or trafficked on their property

    "Supporting strict and severe mandatory minimum sentences for criminals convicted of drug trafficking, while ensuring landlords are held liable for knowingly hosting illicit drug production and trafficking sites." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Expand the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings

    "Expanding the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings to combat long-term addiction and dependence by increasing access to medications that block the effects of opioids." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Increase inspections of point-of-origin containers from China at shipping yards, ports, rail yards, and airports

    "Increase inspections of all point-of-origin containers at shipping yards, ports, rail yards and airports from China, the frequent source of fentanyl and other illicit drugs that are plaguing Canadian and American communities." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Enforce a ban on safe consumption sites within 200m of schools and licensed child-care centres
  • Increase access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition to probation

    "Increasing access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition of probation, to help people exit the vicious cycle of crime and addiction and keep communities safe." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Give new powers to police and border agents to confiscate property they determine to be used for producing illicit drugs

    "Working with the federal government to enact new authorities for the RCMP, border agents and regional and local law enforcement to identify, detect and confiscate pill presses, precursor chemicals and lab equipment if law enforcement determine that the intent is to produce fentanyl or other illicit drugs." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Enforce a ban on municipalities or organisations from starting new safe consumption sites or participating in safe supply initiatives
  • Invest $530M to create 27 new Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hubs across the province

    "Investing $530 million to create 27 new Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs across the province to support people struggling with addiction and mental health issues by focusing on addiction recovery and supportive housing solutions instead of supporting further hard drug use at drug injection sites." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Enforce a ban on municipalities requesting the decriminalisation of illicit drugs from the federal government

ONDP
  • Fund more detox beds and residential treatment beds

    "We will fund the addition of detox beds and residential treatment beds." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Create 60,000 new supportive housing units

    "Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Increase funding to community mental health service providers like CMHA and AMHO

    "We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Liberal
  • Provide wraparound support for addiction recovery, including supportive housing units

    "Provide wraparound support to help people recover from addictions, including rapidly building supportive housing units." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Expand treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation

    "Act decisively and collaboratively with those on the frontline to bring deaths caused by opioid use down to zero in four years through expanded treatment, recovery and rehabilitation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green
  • Address substance use through a health and human rights framework, not a criminal justice framework
  • Integrate paid peer support workers with lived experience into the planning and organisation of all substance use programming
  • Expand the number of safe consumption and treatment sites across the province, prioritising areas with high opioid deaths like the North
  • Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
  • Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
  • Reopen safe consumption and treatment sites closed by the previous government
  • Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
  • Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics

    "Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase access to publicly-funded treatment beds
  • Create and expand permanent 24/7 mobile crisis response teams and rapid access addiction medicine clinics

    "Invest in the creation and expansion of permanent 24/7 mobile crisis response teams where mental health care workers are deployed when people are experiencing a mental health or substance related crisis, as well as rapid access addiction medicine clinics" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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