Ontario mayor who removed his city’s speed cameras wrote the law that introduced them

Vaughan, Ont., Mayor Steven Del Duca took Premier Doug Ford’s complaint that automated speed cameras are a “tax grab” to heart last week, calling an emergency council meeting and scrapping his city’s enforcement.

Shortly after the premier first railed against the cameras, Del Duca put forward a successful council motion to immediately decommission Vaughan’s program .

“I listened, we listened, we heard from you loud and clear,” Del Duca said in a social media video. “This is what leadership looks like, in particular at this moment. You need leaders who have your back and who are on your side.”

The speed enforcement plan Del Duca moved to remove rapidly, however, was one he helped to create less than 10 years earlier.

In 2017, when he was transportation minister in Kathleen Wynne’s