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Kristyn Wong-Tam
Ontario New Democratic Party
Kristyn Wong-Tam is the Ontario NDP MPP for Toronto Centre and the party's Attorney General critic. She has documented specific cases where sexual assault and domestic violence charges were stayed due to court system underfunding — including cases where victims pursued justice for years before charges were dismissed for government-caused delay.
Connected Scandals
Over 157 inmates were improperly released from Ontario's dangerously overcrowded provincial jails between 2021 and 2025 — six remain at large as of April 2026. Solicitor General Michael Kerzner told the legislature they were all caught "instantaneously." Global News FOI documents proved that was false. Kerzner apologized "unreservedly." At the same Maplehurst facility running at 175% capacity, correctional officers zip-tied 200 inmates in their underwear for two days — and a judge stayed first-degree murder charges as a result.
As the NDP's Attorney General critic, Wong-Tam has documented specific cases where sexual assault and domestic violence charges were stayed due to Ontario court delays caused by resource shortages — including the cases of Emily Agar and Cait Alexander, where charges were dismissed after years of proceedings. She has argued the Ford government's court underfunding is causing serious cases to collapse before trial.
Doug Ford's government introduced Bill 110 to seize all of Little Norway Park — a children's playground and waterfront green space beside two schools and a daycare — to expand Billy Bishop Airport into a jet hub, with no plan, no environmental assessment, and no guarantee the park won't become a parking lot.
As NDP MPP for Toronto Centre, Wong-Tam spoke against Bill 110 in the Ontario Legislature, opposing the expropriation of Little Norway Park and city-owned airport lands.
For years, the Ford government has refused to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario — rejecting a coroner's inquest recommendation, referring an opposition bill to committee instead of passing it, and blocking a unanimous consent motion in June 2025 — before settling in November 2025 for the weaker term "endemic," which advocates say still isn't matched by funding or action.
Sponsored Bill 55 (and its 2024 predecessor Bill 173) and moved the June 6, 2025 unanimous consent motion the government blocked, publicly pressing the government over its refusal to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic.