As she looks to save her city’s automated speed enforcement program, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has weighed in on the news that vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet ministers have been caught by speed cameras more than 20 times.
Documents previously obtained by Global News show vehicles assigned to Ford’s cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in fines.
In a separate instance, a minister-assigned vehicle was recorded at more than 150 km/h by the car’s internal monitoring system, triggering stunt driving notifications to the Ministry of Transport .
Chow, who is one of more than 20 Ontario mayors lobbying the Ford government not to go ahead with its plan to cancel speed cameras, suggested the speed violation