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.