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Society & Government

Racism platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC
  • Invest $38M to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organisations implement security measures

    "$38 million to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organizations implement measures to ensure their community spaces remain safe and secure, such as hiring security staff, surveillance cameras, security assessments, cybersecurity and building repairs." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP
  • Re-establish the Anti-Racism Secretariat

    "We will re-establish the Anti-Racism Secretariat to support communities to stamp out hate. The Secretariat will coordinate collection across government to ensure programs and services meet our equity goals." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create anti-racism councils to advocate on behalf of racialised communities

    "We will create Anti- Racism Councils to advocate on behalf of racialized communities and provide information, advice and recommendations to the government, through the minister, on all ethnocultural matters, including anti-racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and education, human rights, immigration, settlement and cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Liberal
  • Ban hate-motivated activities and protests that intimidate or incite violence within 100 metres of social infrastructure, with $100K fines

    "Ban organizing or participating in hate-motivated activities or protests that incite violence or intimidation within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure (ex. place of worship, school, childcare centre, or hospital) anywhere in the province, and impose a maximum fine of $100,000 for each violation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green
  • Strengthen the Anti-Racism Directorate with increased funding, more objective goals, and improved reporting

    "Strengthen the Anti-Racism Directorate to more ambitiously address systemic racism in education, child welfare, health and justice sectors through increased funding, more objective goals, and improved reporting on data outcomes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Work to end discrimination in the public service with random external audits, data collection and reporting, and a safe reporting system

    "Commit to the elimination of racism and discrimination within the Ontario Public Service ensuring this includes conducting random external audits, data collection and reporting, and establishing a safe harassment and discrimination reporting system for staff" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Ensure the Human Rights Tribunal has adequate resources to address each concern in a timely and effective way

    "Bolster the Human Rights Tribunal to ensure that they have adequate resources to address each concern in a timely and effective way" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create an oversight body to advise the province to prevent systemic racism in new policy and programmes
  • Pass the Our London Family Act to address Islamaphobia

    "Pass the Our London Family Act to change the way we address Islamophobia in Ontario" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Destroy all data collected from police carding
  • Reform the justice system to reduce the disproportionate representation of Black, Indigenous, and racialised people

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