Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday morning that his government will soon table legislation to ban the use of speed cameras — a traffic enforcement tool Ford has called an ineffective "tax grab."

"Over the last few years, we've seen municipalities across the province use municipal speed cameras as nothing more than a cash grab," he said at a news conference in Vaughan Thursday morning.

Ford said speed cameras don't slow people down, and the province plans to establish a new provincial fund to help municipalities put in place other "proactive traffic-calming initiatives that stop people from speeding in the first place," Ford said. That includes speed bumps, roundabouts, raised crosswalks and curb extensions.

CBC Toronto is carrying the live news conference in this story now.

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