Howard Sapers

Bill 75, branded the "Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act," got Royal Assent in May 2026 with a buried Bail Act schedule requiring accused people or their sureties to post the full cash bail amount upfront in every case — scrapping the traditional 10% recognizance system that has kept bail accessible for decades. Legal experts call it an unconstitutional two-tier justice system that punishes poverty, not crime.

Executive Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, quoted as a critic of Ontario's cash-bail rules when they took effect on August 17, 2026 and were challenged in court the same day.

Ontario's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital has kept severely mentally ill patients locked alone in rooms for years — one man for about 20 years — in conditions an independent reviewer found akin to what the UN "deemed to constitute torture." The Ford government was warned in 2018 and responded with a single phone call.

Called for a public independent review extending beyond Waypoint to other hospitals and to the Ontario Review Board itself: "We have a systemic issue here."