Overview
- Ontario’s police chiefs said Thursday that automated speed enforcement reduces speeding and frees officers for other duties, emphasizing deployments in school and community safety zones.
- Doug Ford continues to call the cameras a tax grab, argues they do not improve safety, and has signalled he could move to force municipalities to remove them, potentially through legislation.
- The Association of Municipalities of Ontario urged him to reconsider, warning that removing cameras would raise speeds in safety zones and citing a July SickKids–Toronto Metropolitan University study showing about a 45 percent reduction in speeding.
- Vaughan scrapped its program this week after Ford’s push, drawing praise from the premier.
- Toronto reports more than $45 million in fines so far this year after $40 million in 2024, as police investigate a recent spree that cut down roughly 16 to 17 cameras over two nights.