Who is Ontario Premier Doug Ford trying to appeal to with Tuesday’s threat to eliminate municipal speed cameras ?

It can’t be those with children, who would almost certainly prefer that people drive slowly near schools and parks. And we can rule out people who think that laws should be enforced, a group that ever so recently included the premier himself.

That leaves two groups that would benefit from cancelling speed cameras: speeders and vandals who like to damage speed cameras. What a unique political coalition.

This week’s comments weren’t the first time Ford has criticized speed cameras, but his timing wasn’t great. Speed cameras are in the news because of a wave of vandalism in Toronto, where 17 speed cameras were damaged in recent days. In all, there have been 800 incidents of

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