Real Justice and Orderly Immigration

The case

Why this, why now

Order is not the opposite of compassion. It is what makes compassion possible. People who feel safe in their own neighbourhood, on their own transit, outside their own place of worship, are people who can get on with the rest of their lives.

Lately too many Ontarians have lost confidence that the basic tenets of law and order are being upheld. Violent repeat offenders are released on bail and offend again. Hate crimes rise without much consequence. Communities are harassed in their own streets. Meanwhile, immigration grew far faster than the housing, healthcare, and schools meant to support it. When people stop trusting that the rules are real and applied to everyone alike, they stop trusting the state itself. In a multicultural society, trust in equality before the law is what gives liberal government legitimacy.

This section sets out to restore that trust. It brings faster justice and real consequences back to a system that lost sight of victims, with more court capacity, serious bail supervision, and an end to enforcement that turns on who you are. It protects communities from hate and organized intimidation. It also rebuilds immigration into the genuine advantage it has always been for Ontario: orderly, well managed, sized to what the province can absorb, and fair to newcomers and receiving communities alike.

The plan

What we'll do

Restore Order And The Rule Of Law6 commitments · ($200M) to ($500M) ↓

Reduce court delays, strengthen bail supervision, end two-tier enforcement, and put victims back at the centre of a justice system that has drifted away from them.

End two-tier justice in Ontario. Work with the federal government on a simple principle: similar crimes should receive similar sentences, regardless of who commits them. Sentencing should focus on the crime committed, impact to the victim, and the future risk to society.

Restore a victim-centred approach to prosecution. Work with the federal government to ensure the justice system gives full weight to the harm suffered by victims, families, and communities.

Improve court and tribunal capacity to reduce delays. Add judges, prosecutors, and court staff, modernize digital scheduling and disclosure, and set performance standards to reduce delays for victims, accused people, families, landlords, tenants, and small businesses.

Strengthen bail supervision and tougher sentences for repeat offenders. Focus provincial resources on monitoring, enforcement, victim protection, and reliable court attendance for those granted bail, while working with the federal government to deliver stricter sentences for repeat violent and non-violent offenders.

Reward successful enforcement against fraud, organized crime, and white collar crime. Build specialized Crown teams for fraud, corruption, wage theft, auto theft and organized theft rings, and anti-competitive conduct, and reinvest a share of recovered penalties and seized proceeds into the offices that deliver results, funding more prosecutors, investigators, and forensic expertise.

Keep courts independent, but not unaccountable. Work with the federal government and provincial partners on reforms that encourage judicial deference to legislatures on complex policy questions — including fixed but renewable judicial terms — so that use of the notwithstanding clause stays exceptional in Ontario.

Defend Communities From Hate And Intimidation4 commitments · ($25M) to ($50M) ↓

Protect Ontarians from hate crimes, organized intimidation in their own neighbourhoods, and the breakdown of order in shared public spaces such as transit.

Crack down on hate crimes. Stand up a provincial strategy on antisemitism, anti-Asian and South Asian hate, hate against 2SLGBTQIA+ people, and other hate-motivated crime, with stronger police reporting, Crown prosecution, victim support, school and community safety, federal coordination, and direct security funding for places of worship and community centres facing threats.

Stop the intimidation of communities in their own neighbourhoods. Establish provincial bubble zones around homes, places of worship, schools, hospitals, and community centres, with strict, enforceable rules and serious penalties for organized harassment, obstruction, and persistent disruption.

Protect students from hate and intimidation in our schools. Ontario's schools, colleges, and universities are for learning, and every student — regardless of origin, faith, or politics — deserves to feel safe and welcome. With antisemitism and other hatreds rising on campuses, set clear standards for student safety, and where institutions fall short, require adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.

Put transit riders first. Enforce strict rules against drug use, harassment, occupying multiple seats, blocking aisles, playing audio without headphones, smoking, vaping, and other anti-social conduct that drives paying riders off the system.

Restore Faith In Ontario's Immigration Advantage5 commitments · +$1.0B to +$1.5B ↓

Restore orderly, well-managed immigration that supports Ontario's economy, fits its absorptive capacity, and rebuilds public trust in the system.

Cap temporary foreign labour at under 1% of the population. Work with the federal government over the next 5 to 10 years to give employed temporary residents a real pathway to stay, while moderating overall immigration and focusing on high-potential newcomers who can build long-term lives here as citizens.

Negotiate greater provincial control over immigration. Seek a Quebec-style agreement so Ontario can take more ownership based on provincial needs and criteria.

Press the federal government to fund programs for asylum seekers. Stop letting municipalities and provincial services carry federal humanitarian immigration and refugee-system costs without stable funding. Press Ottawa to fund what is actually its responsibility.

Bring international student numbers back to a sustainable level. Cap international undergraduate enrolment at 10% of domestic enrolment at public institutions, end the use of private colleges as immigration back doors, and keep graduate research enrolment open to high-potential students in fields aligned with Ontario's needs.

Work with the federal government on a Northern Ontario immigration pathway. Open permanent residency pathways for communities with acute worker shortages, focused on priority local sectors.

What it costs

The fiscal picture

Goal	Lower	Upper
Total — Consequences For Crime and Orderly Immigration	+$775M	+$950M
Restore Order And The Rule Of Law	($200M)	($500M)
Defend Communities From Hate And Intimidation	($25M)	($50M)
Restore Faith In Ontario's Immigration Advantage	+$1.0B	+$1.5B

Net budgetary impact over the Ontario Budget 2026 baseline. Negative numbers represent net new provincial spending; positive numbers represent net savings or revenue.

Financial assumptions — how every number was derived Line-by-line derivations for each estimate ↓

Detail on how each cost or savings estimate was derived. All figures represent net budgetary impact over the Ontario Budget 2026 baseline.

Restore Order And The Rule Of Law · ($200M) to ($500M)

Idea	Lower	Upper	How it was estimated
End two-tier justice in Ontario.	$0	$0	Sentencing rules are federal Criminal Code; Ontario makes the case and directs its own Crown prosecutors. Funded within existing budgets.
Restore a victim-centred approach to prosecution.	$0	$0	Prosecution standards flow from the federal Criminal Code; Ontario makes the case and directs its own Crown prosecutors. Funded within existing budgets.
Improve court and tribunal capacity to reduce delays.	($100M)	($250M)	$100-250M/yr for more judges, prosecutors, court staff, and digital scheduling and disclosure systems to clear Ontario's court backlogs. Faster courts also lower bail supervision and pre-trial custody costs.
Strengthen bail supervision and tougher sentences for repeat offenders.	($100M)	($250M)	$100-250M/yr to expand bail supervision: monitoring, electronic supervision, victim notification, and enforcement, so fewer crimes happen on bail and more people appear in court. Tougher sentencing is federal Criminal Code work with no provincial cost.
Reward successful enforcement against fraud, organized crime, and white collar crime.	$0	$0	Specialized Crown teams are paid out of the penalties and seized proceeds they recover, so the program funds itself at scale.
Keep courts independent, but not unaccountable.	$0	$0	An institutional and intergovernmental reform pursued with Ottawa and other provinces, carried within existing ministry budgets.

Defend Communities From Hate And Intimidation · ($25M) to ($50M)

Idea	Lower	Upper	How it was estimated
Crack down on hate crimes.	($25M)	($50M)	$50-100M/yr for a provincial hate-crime strategy, security upgrades for places of worship and community centres under threat, police reporting, Crown standards, victim support, and public education. Sized to an expanded federal community-security program plus Ontario's own spending.
Stop the intimidation of communities in their own neighbourhoods.	$0	$0	A legal and regulatory change the Solicitor General delivers through provincial offences and municipal coordination. Funded within existing budgets.
Protect students from hate and intimidation in our schools.	$0	$0	Provincial standards and oversight delivered through existing ministry and Solicitor General budgets; school boards are directly funded and regulated by the province, so enforcement carries no added cost.
Put transit riders first.	$0	$0	Ontario sets the rules and coordinates with municipal transit operators within existing Solicitor General and MTO budgets. Mandatory treatment and secure care for repeat offenders draws on capacity costed in the Health section, so there is no added cost here.

Restore Faith In Ontario's Immigration Advantage · +$1.0B to +$1.5B

Idea	Lower	Upper	How it was estimated
Cap temporary foreign labour at under 1% of the population.	$0	$0	Federal-led; no provincial cost. Whether the limit covers only the Temporary Foreign Worker Program or all work-permit holders sets the pace over the 5 to 10 year transition.
Negotiate greater provincial control over immigration.	$0	$0	A negotiation for a Quebec-style agreement letting Ontario help select economic immigrants. No provincial cost; pays off by matching newcomers to Ontario's labour needs.
Press the federal government to fund programs for asylum seekers.	+$1.0B	+$1.5B	Pressing Ottawa to fund the asylum and refugee-system costs that provincial and municipal services currently absorb recovers an estimated $1.0-1.5B/yr in federal humanitarian-immigration costs Ontario should not be carrying alone.
Bring international student numbers back to a sustainable level.	$0	$0	Cross-reference: costed in the Education section as a Ministry of Colleges and Universities reform; shown as $0 here to avoid double-counting.
Work with the federal government on a Northern Ontario immigration pathway.	$0	$0	Cross-reference: costed in the Northern and Rural section; shown as $0 here to avoid double-counting.

The goals

Restore Order And The Rule Of Law

Defend Communities From Hate And Intimidation

Restore Faith In Ontario's Immigration Advantage

Why this, why now

What we'll do

The fiscal picture

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