Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025
Sponsored by Downey, Hon. Doug · Royal Assent received. Statutes of Ontario 2025, chapter 6
- Bill 10 amends eight different Acts to strengthen public safety, bail administration, and the justice system, including new rules on sureties, sex offender registration, judicial appointments, motor vehicle theft devices, and illegal drug premises.
- It also creates a new Act letting authorities target landlords who knowingly allow their properties to be used for drug production or trafficking.
- Sureties and former sureties who become Crown judgment debtors must provide information as regulations require.
- Crown Attorneys may now delegate their powers and duties under sections 1 or 7 of the Act.
- More people can now apply for restraining orders on behalf of those already entitled to apply.
- Clarifies that a rule on minor parents applies to those who have never been married.
- Voyeurism under Criminal Code section 162 now counts as a 'sex offence' regardless of any court order.
- Special in-person reporting rules for offenders against children apply even without federal registration duty.