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Speed Cameras on Provincial Hit List

Thursday, 25 September 2025 17:19

By Geoff Waterfield

Premier Doug Ford moving next month to get rid of them, insisting people can't afford extra costs of tickets

Good news for drivers who've never liked speed cameras.... the Ford government is introducing legislation next month to get rid of them.

Premier Doug Ford says they're a cash grab, and will instead provide money for speed bumps, flashing lights, and other speed control measures that he says work.

Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca compared people speeding to criminals.  "They acknowledge occasionally going a few kms over the speed limit, but when someone gets killed in front of their kids, when someone has their home on a quiet residential street shot at, in one case more than once, to equate the two... speed cameras with going after the real criminals, it's not even a close fight."

The premier says there are 37 municipalities, that includes Niagara, of 444 Ontario municipalities that use cameras.

He says people cannot afford anything more with the cost of living, especially getting hit with a ticket for a few kms over the speed limit.

He then pointed to what mayors who are against cameras have asked.  "'The money you have collected... how much have you put into road safety? How much have you put into calming traffic?  Not one dollar has gone into that.  Where's the money?  It's going into the general coffers.'  That's what this is all about, it's all about the money."

St. Catharines NDP MPP Jennie Stevens says the premier is eliminating the cameras, which save lives, without any plans to keep vulnerable road users, such as children, cyclists and pedestrians, safe.

She says this is a distraction, while as Doug Ford rallies against speeding tickets, 800,000 Ontarians are unemployed.

She further says this is done against expert and police advice.

 

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