Ontario Premier Doug Ford will be joined by his transportation minister on Thursday morning at an event where he is likely to unveil his plan for speed enforcement cameras.
The premier is scheduled to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. in Vaughan, Ont., after teasing that money is on the way for cities to install speed bumps and flashing lights instead of cameras.
Since the beginning of September, Ford has spoken out against automated speed enforcement, calling it a “tax grab” that doesn’t slow down drivers. At subsequent news conferences, he has proposed getting rid of or drastically reducing the number of cameras. “We’re going to be giving municipalities across the province a lot of money to put in all sorts of street-calming methods from turnabouts to speed bumps to flashing signs,” Ford said on Sept. 22, for example.“ And that’s going to slow people down; these speed traps do not slow people down.”
It’s not yet clear exactly what the premier will do with the existing speed camera program, which his government helped usher in. The government, Global News has confirmed, is currently drafting legislation on the issue.
Vaughan, where Ford is scheduled to speak, rushed to get rid of its speed cameras at an emergency meeting last week.
The city’s mayor, Steven Del Duca, wrote the law which paved the way for automated speed enforcement in the first place back in 2017.
Ford government likely to unveil next steps in speed camera battle
