Photo Radar DOES NOT make people safe!
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Summary
Why is Doug Ford so hell bent on making the streets in front of our kids' schools less safe? Why is it so hard to tell the difference between a speed camera and a stoplight? And why is it that a liberal MPP thinks it's a good idea?
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 507 a.m. Monday, October the 20th. I hope you're
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having a great start to your Monday morning and I hope you had a great weekend as well.
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I've got my big blue mug of coffee with me today and I've got a topic from out in left
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field, but I think there's something we can learn about. The left and the right here,
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conservatives and liberals, it's something I've said before, maybe you've not heard me
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say this, but this issue certainly is a factor in this story in Ontario. Now, it's an Ontario story,
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but if you've got photo radar where you live, you need to listen to me here. I've got a lot
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of experience with photo radar. I'll tell you about it in just a moment. So, I always say
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conservatives are logical, liberals are emotional. Case in point, Mark Carney and the liberals got
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elected on April 28th because people who voted liberal thought, oh my God, Donald Trump. They
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voted with their emotions while the rest of us who think logically conservatives thought the liberals
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have screwed up the country. They put us in a precarious situation economically. I'm voting for
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the other guy. Conservatives are logical. Liberals are emotional. And this issue is the same thing.
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So, let's go over and look at the story I saw first thing this morning. And keep in mind again,
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I have a lot of experience when it comes to photo radar. I used to do traffic here and I used to not
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argue with people on the phone, but people used to yell at me when I would announce where
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photo radar was. More on that in a moment. So, here's the article I saw first thing this morning.
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And I'm going to play a clip from an Ontario MPP, a liberal, who I'm going to slay in just a moment.
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The man's a fool. And all he's trying to do is make political points. And he's trying to drag
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keeping kids safe into this where it has nothing to do with that. Photo radar has nothing to do with
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safety. Nothing. Horrible piece of legislation. Ontario parents to rally against speed camera ban.
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Just a bit of this article. Several parents groups against a looming speed camera ban in
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Ontario holding a provincial day of action on Monday as MPPs return to Queen's Park for the
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beginning of a new legislative session. Premier Doug Ford announced earlier this month his
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progressive conservative government will table a bill to ban speed cameras. I'll jump ahead a little
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bit here. Tom DeVito, okay, here's his quote here. Quote, when an announcement comes out of the blue
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that a very effective tool that's used to control very dangerous driving behavior in your schools is
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going to be dismantled, it kind of shocked me to the core. Unquote, he said. So it says right there,
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a very effective tool that's used to control very dangerous driving behavior. Here's John Fraser. This
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is the tweet on X I saw this morning. Why is Ford Nation so hell bent on making the streets in front
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of our kids' schools less safe? Who is John Fraser? Member of Provincial Parliament, Ottawa South. And he is a
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liberal. And here's what he had to say in his little diatribe in front of a school in Ontario.
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We're headed back to Queen's Park tomorrow and I'm sure one of the things we're going to talk
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about are these automated speed enforcement cameras. I'm here on Heron Road just across the
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street from Marie Curie, a French elementary school in my riding. This camera, it keeps these
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kids safe. Heron Road, it's like a highway. You know, the chiefs of police have told Doug Ford,
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don't take speed cameras away. So sick kids. So why is Doug Ford so hell bent on making our schools
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and the roads near them less safe? I'm no fan of Doug Ford, but he's right. It's a cash grab.
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The police love the speed cameras because it just gives them money. But him saying it keeps the kids
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in front of that school safe is an absolute lie. It does not keep people safe. Let me ask you this.
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You see this camera? This is a camera right behind him. If somebody drove along this, it's a 50 kilometer
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an hour road at 75 and it took a picture of that car. Would the car slow down? No, it's still driving
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75 and it'll continue down Heron Road past that school and it won't slow down at all. All that will
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happen is that that person will get a bill. It doesn't change the behavior of anybody at all.
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This is an absolute freaking lie. Photo radar does not slow people down. Now, I used to do traffic here
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in Calgary and I would plead with people. They would yell at me on the phone. Why are you
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telling people where the photo radar on? We want these people to slow down. Now, if you want to
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punish people for speeding, that's all it does, but it's not changing their behavior at all.
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And I've got a better solution to this. But I would say to them, I'm telling people where photo
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radar is because when I say it, everybody slows down. I'm actually having an effect on the traffic,
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making people safe. The photo radar camera does absolutely nothing but punish people and give money
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to the police. Of course, they love it because it gets more money in their coffers.
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So, let's go back to this tweet here from John Fraser. Here's what I said in reaction to this tweet
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from Mr. Fraser MPP from Ottawa. I put, photo radar doesn't slow anyone down. The camera goes click,
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the person speeds on. Weeks later, they get a letter and a bill. It does nothing. I could get
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better results by placing a sign on the street that says speed trap ahead. And if you really want to
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punish people, if that's what they want, and you want more money for the cops, I could put a sign
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a kilometer before this school that says speed trap ahead. Everybody would slow down all the way down
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the road. And if somebody continues to speed, I put a cop down the road, they pull them over,
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and they give them a ticket, if that's what you really want to do. But speed cameras do nothing,
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folks. I used to plead with people on the phone, sir, me announcing the photo radar slows people down.
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Photo radar, if somebody's doing 140 on Glenmore and they're traveling out to Banff, they're going to
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do 140 all the way. Two weeks later, they'll get the bill. Meanwhile, people might be actually in
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danger from the guy driving 140. So this is how, you know, I think logically the left and this guy
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who's a leftist, he's just trying to make points. He's not thinking logically. Tell me what you think.
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Got a lot of experience with this. This drives me nuts. There's other things that the city has done
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in the past, like lowering speed limits that does nothing that I could talk about as well, but we'll get
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into that later. Now, there's a few other things I want to talk about. There's an event happening
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tonight. You might want to go to this Act Now meeting. Mitch Sylvester, Dennis Modry will be
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chatting. Alberta Prosperity Project Habibi's Banquet Hall. Okay. Go here and RSVP, I believe it
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starts at six o'clock, runs until nine. The other thing is we've got our big independence rally coming
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up on Saturday, four to six at the legislature. I will be the emcee. I've been asked to be the emcee.
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Very, very excited about that. And it is municipal election day today. Get out and vote.
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I'm voting for Sonia Sharp. We need to get rid of Jodi Gondek. Thanks a lot for watching. If you
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