Dear Editor:
RE: County’s speed camera pilot program hits red light as province forces end to automated enforcement, Nov. 6.
In this article Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Joseph Racinsky is quoted as saying the Progressive Conservative government is responding to an affordability crisis by outlawing the cameras.
So let me see if I have this straight. Someone breaks the traffic laws by speeding, is caught by the camera and then fined. However, Premier Doug Ford is somehow concerned that this is part of the affordability crisis and therefore will mandate an end to the cameras?
I guess the next legislation will remove the penalties for shoplifting as clearly someone who is shoplifting is suffering from an affordability crisis, no?
There are some very well articulated concerns around the use of speed cameras by municipalities. I won’t go over well trod ground, but Ford’s response to the issue is nothing more than his usual blustering, bull-in-a-china-shop, populist response to a complex issue.
And Racinsky’s parroting of the party talking points does not do anything to address the very real issue of affordability in Wellington-Halton Hills.
Mike Vasil,
Fergus