Ontario Review Board
Re: Sami Kazi
ORB File No: 8566
Hearing held on: Monday, December 1, 2025
Place of Hearing: Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
Pursuant to: Section 672.81(1) of the Criminal Code
Before:
Alternate Chairperson: Mr. D. Sandor
Members: Dr. R. Kunjukrishnan
Dr. R. Cormier Mr. J. Weinstein
Mr. A. Bernardo
Parties Appearing:
Accused: Sami Kazi
Counsel: Mr. M. Davies
Person in charge of hospital: Representative: Dr. J. Gojer
Attorney-General of Ontario: Counsel: Ms. E. Davies
REASONS FOR DISPOSITION
(Dated January 22, 2026)
Introduction
On May 27, 2024, Mr., Sami Kazi, was found not criminally responsible on charges of assault with a weapon, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, fail to stop after an accident, and utter threat to cause death, all contrary to the provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada. Mr. Kazi is currently subject to a Disposition of the Ontario Review Board dated January 23rd, 2025 detaining him at the Secure Forensic Unit, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (hereinafter referred to as “the Hospital”) with privileges up to and including to live in the community in accommodation approved by the person in charged.
On December 1, 2025, the Ontario Review Board convened at the Hospital to conduct the annual review of that Disposition pursuant to s. 672.81(1) of the Criminal Code. The Hospital was represented by Dr. J. Gojer, Mr. Kazi’s treating psychiatrist. Ms. E. Davies, lawyer with the Office of the Crown Attorney represented the Attorney General. Mr. Kazi was present with his parents. Counsel, Mr. M. Davies attended at Mr. Kazi’s request and sought, on the consent of all parties, an order appointing him as counsel. That request was granted.
The record for the hearing included the Revised Notice of Hearing, dated November 19, 2025, the most recent Decision and Disposition, dated January 23, 2025, and the Reasons for that Decision and Disposition, also dated January 23, 2025. On the consent of all parties, a Hospital Report, dated November 24, 2025, that included letters from Mr. Kazi to the Ontario Review Board was admitted into evidence as exhibit 1.
The parties were canvassed for their initial positions. All agreed that Mr. Kazi continued to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public as that term is defined by section 672.5401 of the Criminal Code and as it has been explained by the Supreme Court of Canada in Winko v. British Columbia (Forensic Psychiatric Institute), 1999 CanLII 694 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 625. Both Dr. Gojer for the Hospital and Mr. Davies for Mr. Kazi took the position that a conditional discharge represented the necessary and appropriate disposition to manage Mr. Kazi’s risk, having regard to the objectives set out in section 672.54 of the Criminal Code, the primary of which is the assurance of the safety of the public. Ms. Davies, for the Attorney General, agreed with this submission but reserved as to the specific terms and conditions that would inform the conditional discharge.
For the following reasons, the Board has accepted the joint submission. We have found that Mr. Kazi continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public and that a conditional discharge is necessary and appropriate to manage his risk.
An important issue raised over the course of the hearing was whether the section 672.54 objectives warranted the imposition of a treatment condition pursuant to the provisions of section 672.55(1) of the Criminal Code. While Mr. Kazi consented to this condition, his lawyer raised the question of whether this was necessary having regard to both the objectives of section 672.54 and the principle of minimal intrusion. This issue was seriously considered by the Board. In our conclusion, such a condition is not necessary or appropriate.
Evidence at the hearing
- The evidence for the hearing consisted of the Hospital Report mentioned above and the viva voce testimony offered by Dr. Gojer. Turning first to the Hospital Report, it is cumulative in nature and includes a summary of the circumstances surrounding the index offences:
Mr. Kazi was employed as a delivery driver by the victim in this matter, Mr. Issa, for a brief time in early November 2022. In the early morning of Friday, December 2, 2022, Mr. Kazi attended the Greek on Wheels restaurant but remained in his vehicle in the parking lot while texting Mr. Issa to come outside and talk. When Mr. Issa left the storefront, he observed Mr. Kazi’s vehicle and heard the engine rev, and then Mr. Kazi drove the car right at him. Mr. Issa was able to jump onto the hood of the vehicle to avoid being crushed but was knocked into the building behind, hitting and breaking the front window. He suffered a sore and swollen knee.
Mr. Issa then entered the Greek on Wheels and locked the door. Mr. Kazi exited his vehicle and approached the door, attempting to get in with a knife in his hand. When he realized the door was locked, he returned his vehicle. He drove around the parking lot erratically, eventually driving into the front door of Greek on Wheels, shattering the door, and damaging the front wall.
Mr. Kazi then exited his vehicle and entered the Greek on Wheels through the smashed front door, openly carrying a knife. Mr. Issa escaped the shop through the back door, and Mr. Kazi left through the shattered front door, got into his vehicle, and drove off.
On December 18, 2022, Mr. Kazi sent text messages to a friend of Mr. Issa making threats toward Mr. Issa, making comments about his life expectancy, and stating that Mr. Issa should rethink offering Mr. Kazi a peace treaty”.
The Hospital Report explains that Mr. Kazi is a Canadian citizen from a supportive family with a strong educational background. He has strong employment history and has completed university studies in biology and psychology. He has no criminal record and, up until the commission of the index offences, had no history of involvement with the criminal justice system.
Mr. Kazi’s difficulties with mental illness however were initially manifest over the course of his high school years. According to the Hospital Report, Mr. Kazi reported that his mood was “always up and down.” He recalled being suicidal around grades 10 and 11 due to stress at school and home. He remembers taking pills from his parents’ medicine cabinet in an overdose attempt, not expecting to wake up in the morning. He did this after unsuccessfully trying to drown himself by staying underwater in the bathtub. However, he reported that the longest he would have felt depressed at that time would be for one week. His mood improved in grade 12. In university, he had no significant issues with his mood.
The Hospital Report explains that in December 2022, Mr. Kazi went through a period of depression. He lacked motivation and struggled in terms of social relationships and positive emotional functioning. He became lethargic and described losing any sense of enjoyment in life. His symptoms persisted until he was medicated with Paxil.
According to the Hospital Report, Mr. Kazi began using cannabis around this period of time. His use expanded to approximately half a gram of cannabis daily, usually in small quantities consumed after work. This was met with concern by Mr. Kazi’s family. According to the Hospital Report, Mr. Kazi consumed alcohol irregularly and not to excess and experimented on rare occasions with cocaine and on one occasion with hallucinogenic mushrooms. Mr. Kazi’s last use of cocaine was a year prior to the commission of the index offences. Mr. Kazi expresses no desire to return to use of either psilocybin or stimulants, including cocaine. Mr. Kazi has not used cannabis since October 2024.
The Hospital Report’s Update for the purposes of this hearing
The update begins at page 36 of 70. The update revisits Mr. Kazi’s account of both the index offences and the traumas that he experienced leading up to their commission. These included a blow to the head that Mr. Kazi experienced at the hands of the victim of the index offence. Mr. Kazi’s account also concedes to use of cannabis leading up to both the attack he says he suffered and his own commission of the index offences.
The update explains that, following the last Review Board hearing, Mr. Kazi began being treated with Lithium Carbonate. This resulted in greater focus on his part. He had less difficulty abiding by home rules and was able to maintain employment. He came to accept that cannabis, together with the stress of being assaulted by his employer, likely contributed to his mental state and the commission of the index offences. He showed increased openness with the treatment team. This was a marked improvement from how Mr. Kazi began this reporting period. Up until his treatment with Lithium, he demonstrated poor stability marked by impulsivity, poor insight and involvement with antisocial peers. He missed several doses of his medications and expressed a reluctance to take them because he did not believe he had a mental illness.
Mr. Kazi’s diagnosis is questionable. In the past he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, cannabis use disorder, in remission while in a controlled environment and rule out PTSD. Brief psychotic disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorder have now been ruled out, as has post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the Hospital Report, there is insufficient information to suggest the presence of a personality disorder. Current assessment supports a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, type 1 based on Mr. Kazi’s history of major depressive episodes and presentation at the time of the index offences that was consistent with a manic episode. That being said, the Hospital Report expresses caution in conferring this diagnosis. At page 65 it says:
I would like to issue a note of caution about conferring this diagnosis. A bipolar disorder diagnosis is appropriate for Mr. Kazi under the assumption that he was not feigning manic symptoms. Insofar as it is difficult to sustain deceptive behaviour across a prolonged period, it is unlikely that Mr. Kazi feigned manic symptoms across five or so months. Moreover, a motivation for feigning symptoms in late 2024, following the NCR finding, is not clear. Nevertheless, Mr. Kazi has feigned psychotic symptoms for secondary gain. If information emerges suggesting that Mr. Kazi’s manic episode was in some way fabricated, then this diagnosis is obsolete.
- Explanation of the diagnostic uncertainty may be gleaned from what the Hospital Report details in a broader context as associated with the index offences. Pages 68 and 69 of the Hospital Report state the following:
Mr. Kazi’s presentation at the time of the offenses is indicative of a psychotic episode. The trigger for this decompensation is unclear. There is a history of episodic depression in in the past with some self harming behaviors but no prior history of any manic episodes.
The psychotic episode, of which I am certain, was noted by family, his then girlfriend and documented by the Queensway Hospital. The features involved multiple emotional states that were triggered by him being assaulted to the extent he suffered a laceration to his left eyebrow. At that time, he believed that the victim would harm him. He had seen him with guns. He reported a gun being pointed at him. At the same time, he accosted the victim, pulled the hand with the gun in it and had the victim point the gun at his head and later reported that the victim said that he would rather shoot himself than another person. The ongoing observations by others do not support any features of a true post traumatic stress disorder. While the act was traumatic, Mr. Kazi was trying to leverage the incident into a situation where he felt he could extract a payment from the victim for the trauma inflicted.
He was paid $100.00 and subsequently laughed at. The incidents that followed after that seem to be related to persecutory ideas with respect to the victim and his associates who he felt were related to criminally minded individuals and this caused him to fear for his safety. Furthermore, he felt insulted, ripped of financially, assaulted, and humiliated in the presence of his friends. This resulted in Mr. Kazi experiencing high levels of anger, a blow to his self esteem and pride and associated depression.
It is unclear if cannabis further contributed to the reactions of the individual who assaulted him and the people around. His persecutory ideas extended to mistrust of his sister and others in his family.
Ultimately, his actions in attacking the victim were very serious in that he nearly ran him down, with the victim falling on the hood of his car and later the vehicle crashing into a store front. The weeks following the incident are noteworthy for ongoing psychotic symptoms that seem to be amorphous and lacking in classic manic symptomatology. It could be possible that the illness predated the index offense but was not noticed.
What was noted were features of depression that were reported as a Major Depression. He was treated with antidepressant drugs and in April 2023 and suffered from ongoing depression with a suicide attempt.
He remained stable for a long time till November 2024 when he presented with behavioral problems thought disorder and psychotic symptoms that seemed to be more akin to a manic episode. This episode seemed to settle with antipsychotic medication but was not fully treated until early May 2025. Since starting on Lithium, he has settled well and looking back recognizes that he was quite ill and that the pattern of his illness followed a Bipolar trajectory. He has remained compliant with Lithium and on an appropriate dose and with therapeutic levels.
He has also talked about malingering a psychosis at the time when he reported auditory and visual hallucinations that were not true. However, I do not believe that he was not in a psychotic state at the time of the offending independent of hallucinations. He seems to have some insight into this and stated that he simply wanted to be sure that he was found NCRMD and malingered in the setting for a psychotic state. I am not questioning the validity of the NCRMD finding. He also acknowledged that he could be deceitful to achieve his own interests.
While I am strongly convinced that he has a Bipolar Mood Disorder, the possibility of a drug related psychotic state at the time of the index offenses cannot be ruled out a Mixed Mood Episodes with psychotic symptoms occurred. Lastly the possibility of a Schizoaffective Disorder sill should be kept as a more remote differential possibility. That he is very stable on Lithium and does not show any psychotic symptoms, weighs against a Schizoaffective Disorder.
Given that there are no indicia of cannabis abuse, a substance use disorder cannot be made but is relevant from a risk management point of view.
Given the seriousness of the index offense, that he has had stability in his mood since the last 7 months, and that his insight is more recent, I still believe that monitoring of his progress is required for the immediate future. I see him as a significant risk.
Mr. Kazi himself accepts a diagnosis of a Bipolar Illness with documented episodes of depression. The Hospital Report includes letters from Mr. Kazi to the Ontario Review Board. In them he describes the impact of his Lithium prescription on his rule compliance, insight, and peer relations. He explains that, since going on Lithium, he has cut off negative influences and obtained a new job at the Hard Rock Hotel. He was approved to return to the home he shares with his family. He has remained treatment compliant and has become goal oriented.
While Mr. Kazi’s communications to the Board do still disclose some lack of therapeutic alliance with members of the treatment team, they also express a willingness to engage with Dr. Gojer and to attend the Hospital with regularity. In them, Mr. Kazi also advocates for the removal of a condition that requires him to abstain from the non-medical use of drugs and alcohol. He seeks, in his letter to the Board, to cease participation in mandatory screenings designed to test his compliance with the abstention condition he is subject to.
In support of his request, Mr. Kazi sought to cast doubt on the reliability of the drug screening that has been employed by the Hospital. He leveraged the fact that he has not used cannabis since October 2024 and provided the Board with a host of links to articles that confirm that, generally, the screenings employed by the Hospital are accepted in the broader scientific community, subject to some limitations such as those Mr. Kazi claims have been applicable to one of his screenings that tested positive for Risperidone. Mr. Kazi did not present any expert evidence that tied the scholarly studies he provided to the facts associated with either the collection or analysis of his urine screenings.
Psychodiagnostic and Psychological Risk Assessment
The Hospital Report includes a Psychodiagnostic and Psychological Risk Assessment completed on October 21, 2025. This was undertaken to clarify Mr. Kazi’s psychiatric and psychological presentation. It relied upon the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory – IV, the Personality Assessment Inventory, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Disorders – Clinical Version (SCID-5-CV) Mood Disorders, Psychosis and PTSD module. No challenge to the appropriateness or methodology employed over the course of the use of these assessment modules was raised in this hearing.
In the course of the Psychodiagnostic and Psychological Risk Assessment’s analysis, it was noted that Mr. Kazi is emotionally excitable and has a proclivity to goal-directed activities to the point of eventual exhaustion to the detriment of his wellbeing. He has endorsed being cautious about his surroundings but denied any alterations in his mood. He did endorse intrusive flashbacks, especially at night, and nightmares associated with the assault on him that preceded the index offences, but these subsided without treatment in the two months following the incidents. He remains hypervigilant and harbors some mistrust of others. He indicated that he had feigned psychotic symptoms in the past to increase the likelihood of an NCR finding. He endorsed periods of depression and disclosed periods of hospitalization for this but denied ongoing depressive symptoms. He did endorse historic symptoms consistent with a manic episode but denied any perceptual aberrations or thought disorder over and above the mania-related cognitions he experienced up to March 2025.
In addition to these metrics, the Hospital’s Risk Assessment also relied on other assessment tools including the HCR-20, Version 3, in the analysis of the risk Mr. Kazi poses for violent reoffending in the community. In its conclusion, the Hospital Report concludes that Mr. Kazi is at a low-to-low-moderate risk for general and violent recidivism. The Hospital Report emphasizes that Mr. Kazi has led a prosocial life, has laudable vocational aspirations, has a good work ethic and a supportive family. He acknowledges the importance of prosocial behaviour and of abiding by social norms but has an identified pattern of deception for self-serving and self-enhancing purposes.
In his update to the panel, Dr. Gojer confirmed that Mr. Kazi has abstained from all substances. He expressed confidence that Mr. Kazi was sincere in his determination to not use cannabis and to live a drug-free life. He indicated that, at the time of the writing of the Hospital Report, Mr. Kazi was opposed to random screening but recently indicated that he supports the screening as a step to examining his insight and ability to lead the life of sobriety that he verbally endorses and that he has lived now for over a year.
Dr. Gojer explained further that Mr. Kazi has supportive family that appreciate the symptoms of Mr. Kazi’s major mental illness when he begins to enter manic phases. He said that both they and Mr. Kazi understand the effects and benefits of Lithium and how it protects the public should Mr. Kazi have a manic episode.
In response to questions from Ms. Davies for the Attorney General, Dr. Gojer addressed Mr. Kazi’s ability to operate a motor vehicle in the context of the index offences and the obligation to ensure the safety of the public. He testified that, while he could regulate Mr. Kazi’s driving as a physician by way of a report to the Ministry of Transportation, this process was somewhat burdensome and ill-fitted to what may be fluid circumstances. Dr. Gojer was supportive of a condition that permitted Mr. Kazi to drive unless restricted by the Hospital in writing.
In his evidence, Dr. Gojer addressed the impact of Mr. Kazi’s Lithium treatment on his major mental illness. He confirmed that Mr. Kazi has not experienced any symptoms suggestive of approaching hypomania since being on this medication. He confirmed that Mr. Kazi has been more rule-compliant and goal-oriented, as evidenced by the progress he has made towards a nursing degree, having only 9 months more of studies required for graduation. Dr. Gojer confirmed that, between regular reporting, abstaining from the use of any substances, and compliance with his Lithium prescription, Mr. Kazi does not need to be placed on an antipsychotic form of medication at this time. That being said, Dr. Gojer highlighted this next year as one of monitoring to see whether Mr. Kazi will continue with treatment compliance and with abstaining from the use of cannabis in the absence of a more intrusive Board disposition.
Dr. Gojer’s evidence did not minimize concerns arising over the course of this last period of review. Mr. Kazi breached the Board’s most recent disposition by renting a vehicle, using it while in a highly manic state, leaving Ottawa, and then by being deceptive with members of the treatment team. That being said, Dr. Gojer fairly pointed out that these difficulties preceded the stabilizing impact of Mr. Kazi’s Lithium regimen and, as such, are not expected to re-occur in the context of a conditional discharge. According to Dr. Gojer, the impact of Mr. Kazi’s treatment compliance and abstention from the use of cannabis cannot be minimized. Mr. Kazi’s state now, compared to what it was is “night and day.”
Dr. Gojer confirmed that the treatment team is watchful for any signs of impression management with Mr. Kazi. In his consideration, the active involvement of Mr. Kazi’s family, combined with the regularity of reporting proposed under the conditional discharge, places the treatment team in a position where it will be able to identify and address any signs of approaching hypomania. Dr. Gojer stated clearly that any indication of use of substances by Mr. Kazi will result in further reporting, even if it interferes with Mr. Kazi’s schooling. Decompensation associated with positive urine drug screenings will result in the breaching of Mr. Kazi and a request for an early review.
Submissions
At the end of the hearing, the parties were invited to make closing submissions. Again, all agreed that Mr. Kazi continued to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public. They also agreed that a conditional discharge was necessary and appropriate to assure the safety of the public and to ensure that Mr. Kazi’s mental health and other needs, including the ultimate objective of reintegration into the community, were met.
In terms of necessary and appropriate conditions, all agreed that it would be appropriate for Mr. Kazi to be subject to a condition that permits him to operate a motor vehicle unless directed otherwise in writing by the Hospital. All agreed that it would be appropriate to eliminate a condition that Mr. Kazi does not consume substances or alcohol while maintaining testing to assess his internal motivation to abstain from cannabis and other substances that contributed to his decompensation and the commission of the index offences in the past.
Disagreement arose with regard to whether the Board should impose a treatment condition. Mr. Kazi had given his consent to the same, but this did not relieve the Board of its obligation to ensure that such a term was necessary and appropriate having regard to the objectives set out in section 672.54 of the Criminal Code as balanced against the principle of minimal intrusion. Dr. Gojer and Ms. Davies for the Attorney General, highlighted the impact Lithium has had on Mr. Kazi’s symptoms. They pointed to the primary objective of ensuring the safety of the public. They argued that the inclusion of the treatment clause represented what would “most” protect the public. But both also conceded that there was a basis in the evidence to conclude that public safety would be assured in the absence of such a condition.
Mr. Davies supported that latter conclusion. He reminded the Board of the need to connect evidence of significant threat to any condition and pointed to several factors that supported the finding that a treatment clause was not necessary. Mr. Kazi has been treatment compliant since being prescribed Lithium. Not only does he have insight into his need for that medication, but he appreciates it and the impact it has had on his ability to structure his life, deal with others, and appreciate the impact of his major mental illness in association with the commission of the index offences. Furthermore, Mr. Kazi is agreeable to providing samples for the purpose of monitoring both his abstention from the use of substances and his treatment compliance when it comes to Lithium. He has supportive and watchful family and will be reporting to the Hospital at a frequency that will enable the Hospital to catch any approaching symptoms of hypomania related to any detected decrease in Lithium levels. In Mr. Davies’ submission, the treatment condition is neither necessary nor appropriate.
Analysis and Conclusion
As mentioned, the Board agrees that Mr. Kazi continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public. It does not arrive at this determination lightly, even in the context of a helpful joint submission.
The threshold finding of significant threat has been described as “weighty” and “onerous.” It is not met solely because of the commission of an index offence, nor because an individual struggles with major mental illness. It must entail evidence that connects any number of factors to a real likelihood that, absent a disposition, an individual will commit serious crimes the impact of which will likely result in serious physical or psychological harm to the public. A low likelihood of the commission of an offence, followed by a high likelihood of serious harm flowing from that offence will not suffice to make the finding. Nor will a high likelihood of the commission of an offence, followed by a low likelihood of serious harm. The evidence must establish both a high likelihood of offending and a high likelihood of harm.
The threshold finding in this case is informed by Mr. Kazi’s major mental illness. While there is still some question regarding his diagnosis there is no question that his major mental illness drove the commission of a serious criminal offence that bore the possibility of lethality. Mr. Kazi’s decline into such a severe state of mania was not foreseeable, even in the context of the assault and head trauma he occasioned prior to the commission of the index offences. While Mr. Kazi had experienced suicidality and depression leading to a period of hospitalization in the past, he did not expect that his use of cannabis, coupled with lack of pharmacological response in a context of significant stressors would motivate him to seek to use a car and then a knife against his former employer.
Mr. Kazi has made improvements over the course of this reporting period, but that has occurred while externally motivated by a Board disposition. Mr. Kazi breached that disposition repeatedly leading to his last annual review. He continued to breach until he was placed on Lithium. His progress with that medication is still at early stages. It remains to be seen whether he will continue to be treatment compliant and will continue to abstain from substances when more fully integrated into the community. His re-offence scenario continues to be realistic. Absent a disposition, and in the context of current stressors related to his quest for a degree in nursing and employment, it is likely that Mr. Kazi will experience frustration and depressive symptoms that will overwhelm his current intention to abstain from the use of substances in such a way that either his compliance with treatment or the efficacy of the treatment itself will faulter. Mr. Kazi will enter a hypomanic state and commit further criminal offences. In our view, this is sufficient to satisfy the threshold test as it has been described in Winko.
The Board also agrees that a conditional discharge is necessary and appropriate to manage Mr. Kazi’s risk. Mr. Kazi has developed insight into his major mental illness and the symptoms that precede a hypomanic state. He has supportive family that also has insight into those symptoms. He not only has insight into his need for Lithium but appreciates his treatment and is committed to it. He has abstained from substances since October 2024 and has expressed willingness now to obey the condition that he provide samples to monitor his abstention from the use of substances and the sufficiency of his medication. He is goal-oriented and reintegrating fully into the community as he seeks to complete his degree in nursing. In our view, while there is still significant threat, that threat can be managed by conditions that Mr. Kazi report not less than once per month in person and once per week by videoconference if not in person. He can be put under a condition not to operate a motor vehicle if so, directed in writing by the person-in-charge at the Hospital. He can be placed under a condition to attend at the Hospital within 48 hours of any request. The consistency of his insight into the deleterious effects of substances on him can be safely measured by these provisions coupled with a condition that he continues to participate in urine drug screening.
Turning then to the necessity and appropriateness of a treatment condition, the Board is not satisfied that this is needed at this time. Admittedly, only 6 months have elapsed since Mr. Kazi began Lithium. The evidence is uncontroverted, however, that Mr. Kazi is sincere in his appreciation for that medication. He has insight into his need for it. In our view the disposition being ordered already carries sufficient safeguards to ensure that, should Mr. Kazi become noncompliant with treatment, the Hospital will be able to ensure the safety of the public both by having him report in person within 48 hours and by having recourse to the provisions of the Mental Health Act as well as options to initiate an early review. In our view, the time to test Mr. Kazi’s insight into his ongoing need for Lithium is in the context of a Board disposition that encourages the exercise of his own agency in this regard.
As a result, the Board finds that Mr. Kazi continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public. It is our conclusion that a conditional discharge is sufficient to manage the risk he poses to the safety of the public. That disposition ensures that his mental health and other needs are met and advances him towards the ultimate objective of reintegration into the community. An order will issue accordingly.
The Board thanks all who participated in this hearing and encourages Mr. Kazi in his continued treatment compliance and abstention from the use of substances over the course of this next review period.
DATED this 22nd day of January 2026, at the City of Toronto, in the Toronto Region.
Mr. D. Sandor Alternate Chairperson
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