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Bill 75PASSEDJUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETYONTARIO

Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026

Long title not yet sourced from the legislative registry.

Sponsor
Kerzner, Hon. Michael S. (Solicitor General)
Introduced
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Royal assent
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Final vote
105 / 1

Legislative timeline

  1. 1st—
  2. 2nd—
  3. Comm.—
  4. 3rdMay 19, 2026
  5. Senate—
  6. AssentJun 3, 2026

Bill overview

Bill 75, “Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026”, is an Ontario bill from session 44-1. It was introduced by Michael S. Kerzner (Progressive Conservative, York Centre), as Solicitor General.

It reached third reading on May 19, 2026. It received royal assent on June 3, 2026.

In the recorded division on March 25, 2026 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 105 members voted in favour and 1 against. In favour: Progressive Conservative (69), NDP (23), Liberal (11) and Independent (2). Against: Green (1).

This overview is written automatically from the registry and vote records on this page and updates when they sync. It describes the bill's path, not its merits.

PLAIN-LANGUAGE SUMMARY

What you need to know

Bill 75, the Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026, is currently law in Ontario. This bill allows the Attorney General to appeal bail decisions in certain circumstances, giving the government more flexibility to keep serious offenders behind bars while their cases are being tried. It also requires judges to consider the impact of releasing an offender on public safety when making bail decisions, and gives the government more power to detain repeat offenders.

AI-generated from official records and reviewed against our editorial guardrails.

Key provisions

  1. 01This Act may be cited as the Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026.
  2. 02This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation.
  3. 03The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the administration of this Act.
  4. 04A person who is convicted of a serious offence and has a prior conviction for a serious offence is not eligible for parole.
  5. 05The Attorney General may appeal a decision of a court in relation to this Act.
  6. 06This Act prevails over any provision of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Canada) that is inconsistent with this Act.

Vote roll

44th Parliament · March 25, 2026

105

Yea

1

Nay

0

Abstain

0

Absent

Alexa Gilmour (ONDP) — YEACatherine Fife (ONDP) — YEACatherine McKenney (ONDP) — YEAChandra Pasma (ONDP) — YEAChris Glover (ONDP) — YEAFrance Gélinas (ONDP) — YEAGuy Bourgouin (ONDP) — YEAJamie West (ONDP) — YEAJeff Burch (ONDP) — YEAJennifer (Jennie) Stevens (ONDP) — YEAJennifer K. French (ONDP) — YEAJessica Bell (ONDP) — YEAJohn Vanthof (ONDP) — YEAKristyn Wong-Tam (ONDP) — YEALisa Gretzky (ONDP) — YEALise Vaugeois (ONDP) — YEAMarit Stiles (ONDP) — YEAPeggy Sattler (ONDP) — YEASandy Shaw (ONDP) — YEATerence Kernaghan (ONDP) — YEATeresa J. Armstrong (ONDP) — YEATom Rakocevic (ONDP) — YEAWayne Gates (ONDP) — YEAAdil Shamji (OLP) — YEAAndrea Hazell (OLP) — YEAJohn Fraser (OLP) — YEAJonathan Tsao (OLP) — YEALee Fairclough (OLP) — YEALucille Collard (OLP) — YEAMary-Margaret McMahon (OLP) — YEAStephanie Bowman (OLP) — YEAStephanie Smyth (OLP) — YEAStephen Blais (OLP) — YEATyler Watt (OLP) — YEAAmarjot Sandhu (ONPC) — YEAAndrea Khanjin (ONPC) — YEAAndrew Dowie (ONPC) — YEAAnthony Leardi (ONPC) — YEAAris Babikian (ONPC) — YEABill Rosenberg (ONPC) — YEABilly Denault (ONPC) — YEABilly Pang (ONPC) — YEABrian Saunderson (ONPC) — YEACharmaine A. Williams (ONPC) — YEADave Smith (ONPC) — YEADavid Smith (ONPC) — YEADawn Gallagher Murphy (ONPC) — YEADeepak Anand (ONPC) — YEADoug Ford (ONPC) — YEAEffie J. Triantafilopoulos (ONPC) — YEAErnie Hardeman (ONPC) — YEAGeorge Darouze (ONPC) — YEAGeorge Pirie (ONPC) — YEAGraham McGregor (ONPC) — YEAGraydon Smith (ONPC) — YEAHardeep Singh Grewal (ONPC) — YEAJill Dunlop (ONPC) — YEAJohn Jordan (ONPC) — YEAJoseph Racinsky (ONPC) — YEAKevin Holland (ONPC) — YEALaura Smith (ONPC) — YEALaurie Scott (ONPC) — YEALisa M. Thompson (ONPC) — YEALogan Kanapathi (ONPC) — YEALorne Coe (ONPC) — YEAMatthew Rae (ONPC) — YEAMichael A. Tibollo (ONPC) — YEAMichael Parsa (ONPC) — YEAMichael S. Kerzner (ONPC) — YEAMichelle Cooper (ONPC) — YEAMike Harris (ONPC) — YEAMohamed Firin (ONPC) — YEAMonica Ciriello (ONPC) — YEANatalia Kusendova-Bashta (ONPC) — YEANatalie Pierre (ONPC) — YEANeil Lumsden (ONPC) — YEANina Tangri (ONPC) — YEANolan Quinn (ONPC) — YEAPaul Calandra (ONPC) — YEAPaul Vickers (ONPC) — YEAPrabmeet Singh Sarkaria (ONPC) — YEARaymond Sung Joon Cho (ONPC) — YEARic Bresee (ONPC) — YEARobert Bailey (ONPC) — YEARudy Cuzzetto (ONPC) — YEASam Oosterhoff (ONPC) — YEASheref Sabawy (ONPC) — YEASilvia Gualtieri (ONPC) — YEAStan Cho (ONPC) — YEAStephen Crawford (ONPC) — YEAStephen Lecce (ONPC) — YEASteve Clark (ONPC) — YEASteve Pinsonneault (ONPC) — YEAStéphane Sarrazin (ONPC) — YEASylvia Jones (ONPC) — YEATodd J. McCarthy (ONPC) — YEATrevor Jones (ONPC) — YEATyler Allsopp (ONPC) — YEAVictor Fedeli (ONPC) — YEAVijay Thanigasalam (ONPC) — YEAWill Bouma (ONPC) — YEAZee Hamid (ONPC) — YEABobbi Ann Brady (IND) — YEAChris Scott (IND) — YEAAislinn Clancy (GPO) — NAYCaroline Mulroney (ONPC) — YEASpeaker
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