The Progressive Conservatives had been in power for roughly a year and a half when Doug Ford told his transportation minister to allow towns and cities to begin installing automated speed cameras.

Until December 2019, despite a sustained lobbying effort by then-Toronto mayor John Tory, municipalities had been forbidden from operating cameras capable of automatically issuing tickets to speeding drivers.

Although the previous Liberal government had passed legislation to pave the way for the cameras, Ford waited 18 months before his government passed new provincial regulations to make the policy official.

When he finally did, Ford’s transportation minister said the cameras would be an important way for local officials to reduce speeding

“These regulations… provide the framework to supp

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