Ontario will soon ban speed cameras across the province as part of a red tape reduction bill tabled by Premier Doug Ford’s government Monday, the first day legislators sat at Queen’s Park since early June.

Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said speed cameras are not the best way to prevent speeding and the premier has decried them as a “cash grab” for municipalities.

Ford and Sarkaria have said speed cameras do not work, unlike the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, which studied the program and found that it did slow drivers down significantly.

“The best fix is to prevent speeding from happening in that zone at that moment, and a ticket that’s being issued, whether you speed it up by a week, doesn’t reflect the intended purpose of stopping speeding at that particular moment

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