Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he “broke out laughing” when he found out Ottawa and Toronto had said the signs his government sent were too large to be mounted on the poles in their school zones.

Almost two weeks after banning automated speed enforcement cameras in municipalities, the Ford government sent enormous school zone signs to municipalities.

Ford has repeatedly said he believes giant signs, speed bumps and flashing lights are more effective to slow down speeding drivers than fines and cameras.

When the signs arrived, they were too large for the poles in Ottawa and Toronto, requiring new posts to be installed to get them up. That’s a cost the province said it would cover.

Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said on Wednesday that cities had been briefed on the dimension

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