REFORMS TO ONTARIO'S MENTAL HEALTH ACT: Lessons from ...

21unsupervised and untreated in the community. This will have serious consequences both for that personand for the public. We argue that it is illogical to make the CTO requirements more stringent than thosefor involuntary admission. More specifically, we recommend that prior hospitalization should not be arequirement of CTO statutes that require a person to meet the jurisdiction’s inpatient committal standards.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThis study was supported by funding from the Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Law atWestern University, London, Ontario. We greatly appreciate the assistance of Joanne Chapman, JordanSchubert and Ailbish Skinner in preparing the manuscript.RESEARCH INSIGHTS of the Regional Mental Health Care London and St. Thomas; Vol. 9, No.3, 2012