Overview

• A joint letter from Solicitor General Michael Kerzner and Attorney General Doug Downey was sent Monday to federal ministers Sean Fraser and Gary Anandasangaree outlining Ontario’s proposals.
• The province seeks to restore mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes and to bar bail for charges including murder, terrorism, human trafficking, intimate-partner violence, drug trafficking, serious firearms offences, violent carjackings and home invasions.
• Ontario is also asking to end time-served credits for pretrial detention in repeat and violent cases and to require ankle monitors as a condition of release for serious offences.
• The letter urges a three-strikes rule to deny bail for repeat offenders, echoing a measure long advocated by federal Conservatives.
• Justice Minister Sean Fraser has said the federal government will introduce bail and sentencing legislation in the House of Commons next month, while Premier Doug Ford publicly amplified the province’s demands.