A city councillor is calling for Hamilton to defy a controversial provincial ban on speed cameras .

The Progressive Conservative government passed an omnibus bill Thursday at Queen’s Park that will scrap automated speed enforcement (ASE) after Premier Doug Ford dismissed municipal photo-radar as a “cash grab.”

Veteran Mountain councillor Tom Jackson said in an interview while he is not usually one to defy the law — or the province — ending the speed camera program is a “bad, bad piece of legislation” — and one the city should challenge.

“Leave the cameras up until somebody says we’re forced to take them down,” Jackson said, noting he is only speaking for himself and not council as a whole. “This is putting lives at stake.”

Coun. Tom Jackson is calling for the City of Hamilton to

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