Bill 42 explained in plain English
Justice for Soli Act (Stop Criminalizing Mental Health), 2025
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 44th Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Justice for Soli Act (Stop Criminalizing Mental Health), 2025, mandates the Ontario government to recognize that correctional facilities are inappropriate for mental health crises and that mental illness should not be criminalized.
Bill 42, the Justice for Soli Act (Stop Criminalizing Mental Health), 2025, requires the Ontario government to acknowledge that correctional facilities are unsuitable for individuals experiencing mental health crises and that mental illness should not be treated as a criminal matter. The bill is named in memory of Soleiman Faqiri, whose death in a correctional facility, while awaiting a medical evaluation during a mental health crisis, was deemed a homicide by the Ontario Chief Coroner's inquest. The bill aligns with a recommendation from this inquest.
- Requires the Government of Ontario to formally recognize that correctional facilities are not suitable places for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.
- Requires the Government of Ontario to formally recognize that mental illness requires healthcare and should not be criminalized.
- The Government of Ontario
- Individuals experiencing mental health crises
- Individuals with mental illness
- The Government of Ontario must recognize that a correctional facility is not an appropriate environment for a person experiencing a mental health crisis.
- The Government of Ontario must recognize that mental illness requires health care and should not be criminalized.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill states what the Government of Ontario must recognize but does not specify further actions or mechanisms to implement these recognitions.
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