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From the courtroom to Queen’s Park: MPP Jess Dixon’s mission of crime prevention

“My dream legacy is a generation of kids who will never know who I am,” she said. “But who will lead stable, safe lives, because a nerd in government spent her time obsessing over crime data and evidence-based prevention.”

Published Jul 3, 2025 at 6:29pm

Barbara Patrocinio
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Barbara Patrocinio
From the courtroom to Queen’s Park: MPP Jess Dixon’s mission of crime prevention

MPP for Kitchener South–Hespeler, Jess Dixon. Photo: Courtesy of Dixon's website. (https://jessdixonmpp.ca/)

Jess Dixon didn’t plan to become a politician. In fact, until a few years ago, the Kitchener South–Hespeler MPP’s involvement in politics began and ended at the ballot box.

“I never had any intention of becoming a politician,” Dixon said in an interview. “The sum total of my involvement in politics was voting.”

But after a decade as a Crown prosecutor, Dixon became increasingly frustrated by how often the justice system was being asked to do something it wasn’t built to do: fix people.

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