{"id":161655,"date":"2025-09-22T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:19:07","slug":"ford-government-wants-return-of-mandatory-minimum-sentences-new-bail-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161655\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford government wants return of mandatory minimum sentences, new bail rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario\u2019s Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says he wants to see the return of mandatory minimum sentences for \u201cserious crimes\u201d and a \u201cthree-strikes\u201d rule denying bail for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kerzner outlines his requests in an open letter sent to Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fraser said last week that legislation on bail and sentencing reform is set to be introduced in the House of Commons next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The federal Conservatives have been calling for the implementation of a three-strikes rule to withhold bail from people convicted of multiple \u201cserious\u201d offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kerzner\u2019s letter also calls for an end to time-served credits for pretrial detention in cases of \u201crepeat and violent crimes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Liberals campaigned in the spring election on introducing stricter bail provisions for home invasions, auto theft, human trafficking, organized crime and violent crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says he wants to see the return of mandatory minimum sentences for \u201cserious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,713,47,44,11867,714,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-161655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-justice","10":"tag-national","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ontario-quebec","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}