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Justice system platforms

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

PC

  • Focus the judicial selection criteria and process to select judges and justices of the peace who are tougher on defendants

    "Reducing criminal court backlogs and ensuring justice for victims by continuing to invest $30 million to hire over 190 new criminal prosecutors and appointing new judges and justices of the peace . A re-elected PC government will also focus the judicial selection criteria and process to select judges and justices of the peace that uphold the Criminal Code and are tough on crime." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Mandate upfront payment of bail bond deposits

    "Making bail payment real and effective by mandating upfront payment of bail bond deposits." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Build more jails

    "Building more jails so that we have enough capacity to keep dangerous criminals off our streets and behind bars, where they belong ." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Expand the use of GPS monitoring bracelets for people granted bail, and charge defendants a fee to offset the cost of GPS monitoring

    "Expanding the use of GPS monitoring bracelets for people granted bail and requiring offenders to pay a fee to offset the cost of administering the GPS Monitoring Program to improve community safety and save taxpayers millions of dollars each year." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • 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

  • 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

ONDP

  • Hire and increase pay to court staff to increase the hours courtrooms are open
  • Build new courthouses in under-served regions

    "Completing courtroom repairs, considering reopening shuttered courthouses, and building new courthouses in regions where there is not enough existing infrastructure." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Fund Legal Aid Ontario

    "Funding Legal Aid Ontario so more Ontarians can access procedural assistance, legal information and legal advice." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Complete courtroom repairs and consider reopening shuttered courthouses

Liberal

  • Create Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders accused of violent crimes of drug offences

    "Train more officers to get crime and drugs off our streets and launch special Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders involved with illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking, firearm offences, robberies, home invasion, carjacking and auto-theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

  • Reform the current bail system to ensure access to fair and fast trials and prevent the overcrowding of prisons

    "Reform the current bail system to ensure the 80% of people in jail awaiting trial have access to fair and fast trials and to prevent the overcrowding of prisons" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Destroy all data collected from police carding
  • Reform the justice system to reduce the disproportionate representation of Black, Indigenous, and racialised people
  • Ensure that court mental health workers are available in all regions to divert more individuals with a mental health issue or substance use

    "Ensure that court mental health workers are available in all regions of Ontario to divert more individuals living with a mental health issue and/or substance use concern out of the justice system and into mental health and addictions services and supports" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase Legal Aid's budget and develop a long-term, structurally-stable funding plan

    "Restore adequate funding to Legal Aid by boosting their base budget and develop a long-term, structurally stable funding plan" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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