Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to a letter from more than 20 Ontario mayors asking to save the province’s automated speed cameras , telling them “the answer is no.”

Replying to a letter sent last week asking for changes to how speed cameras operate instead of an all-out ban, Ford repeated his claim the program is a “cash grab.”

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” the premier wrote in his letter addressed to the mayors of Brampton and Burlington.

He said only 37 municipalities across the province were using the program, which he said had brought in millions in revenue.

“Clearly, if the point of speed cameras is to slow down drivers, they are failing miserably,” Ford wrote. “They’re cash grabs, pure a

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