What we heard

A summary of Ontarians' ideas related to community safety and justice.

Restorative justice should be implemented in our schools, work places and used more in our justice system… It makes individuals, businesses and communities stronger, healthier and more integrated.
SubcategoryYour ideas

Policing
7ideas

  • Create new police force focused only on highway/traffic enforcement
  • Replace OPP highway enforcement with MTO enforcement officers
  • Focus police training and tools on peaceful de-escalation
  • Eliminate the OPP, replace with RCMP
  • Merge Conservation Officers with the OPP
  • Combine OPP, Conservation officers and other police forces into one
  • Disarm the police

Justice system
7ideas

  • Bring back capital punishment (2 ideas)
  • Create an online system for filing civil claims
  • Ensure legal documents served to defendants are accessible
  • Use restorative justice in the justice system
  • Remove the power of self-governing institutions to investigate sexual abuse
  • Promote the work of paralegals along with the Law Society

Family law
4ideas

  • Reform the Divorce Act to default to shared custody
  • Place a Family Responsibility Office representative in every family court
  • Pay court entitlements for court appointed child or spousal support
  • Default to split custody in divorce cases

Prisons
4ideas

  • Improve conditions in prisons (2 ideas)
  • Increase funding and support for health care services in correctional facilities
  • Shift costs of juvenile custody onto parents

Community safety
3ideas

  • Invest in violence prevention
  • Put at-risk youth to work
  • Create a provincial strategy to combat gangs and gun violence

Technology
2ideas

  • Increase the use of automatic licence plate recognition
  • Change crosswalk lights to red