True Patriot Love - Speed Cameras： Safety Tool or Cash Grab？ The Debate Heats Up in Ontario!

00:00:00.000 every year in the city of toronto approximately 25 to 30 pedestrians are killed as they're walking

00:00:15.120 around the city and a big reason for that is people simply are driving too fast hence the

00:00:20.320 reason for speed cameras all around toronto and many municipalities in the gta however

00:00:26.120 not everyone is a fan of it as we've seen with recent reports of vandalism and speed cameras all

00:00:32.200 over southern ontario to talk more about it thrilled to be joining anthony fury anthony how are

00:00:36.560 you doing great jim how are you doing good to see you good good to see you i'm a big proponent of

00:00:41.360 these speed cameras especially in school zones dub for the preview ontario would like to get rid of

00:00:46.760 all of them but you have some news regarding speed cameras as well well yeah i understand that there's

00:00:52.400 going to be a lot of debate coming up at city council chambers across ontario about this because

00:00:58.140 doug ford he's he's really sort of thrown the gauntlet out there he said that if municipalities

00:01:02.980 don't get rid of these he will bring in provincial legislation to get rid of them so i've learned that

00:01:08.200 next week vaughn city council is having an emergency session where they're going to sit down and do a

00:01:13.940 vote on it vaughn actually paused speed camera enforcement earlier this year and it was a really

00:01:20.200 tight vote and there was a lot of debate after a lot of residents complained and said this is a cash

00:01:24.220 grab we don't support it reduce speed do do traffic safety but we don't like these get rid of them so

00:01:29.480 they paused it which i thought was good leadership from mayor stephen del duca and they said they're

00:01:33.820 going to take another look that was set to expire around now in the fall the pause and then they would

00:01:38.920 say what do we do next right now well it really looks like they're gonna have to talk about just

00:01:43.180 scrapping all of these uh one city council in toronto made a post saying oh we can't have all these

00:01:48.000 taken down uh being vandalized we need to protect them and i responded with a post and we've gotten

00:01:53.600 a lot of traction and you know thousands of likes and comments and responses back and forth where i

00:01:57.580 said look just do away with this stuff right now because it's causing more headache than good i don't

00:02:02.440 think this is the path forward i for me it's school safety i mean our daughters now are past university

00:02:09.040 but we live near a couple of elementary schools in a high school and anthony quite frankly in the school

00:02:14.680 zones drivers are not observing the crossing guards they're not at her observing the stop sign on the

00:02:20.360 side of the buses it's it's carnage out there in the roads in these school zones and at the very least

00:02:25.620 if you want to tweak the speed camera system in all the municipalities they've got to keep them in the

00:02:32.480 school zones and i have no sympathy for people getting a speeding ticket and a school zone in

00:02:36.900 ontario jim you're talking my language with the school issue i have three children in elementary

00:02:40.440 school we walk them to school i see people running red lights i've said to the crossing guard multiple

00:02:44.820 times like i hope you know you're okay because i worry about this lady i think she's going to be

00:02:49.080 the one who gets she's the one there every crossing rather than the kids so lots of concerns uh for

00:02:54.960 sure with all this lots of lawlessness going on but i think actual enforcement from police officers

00:02:59.600 is something we need to do we have far too few police officers in toronto we actually have 500 fewer

00:03:05.660 today than we had 10 years ago despite the fact the population has grown so i'm all about enforcement

00:03:10.460 so many people running red lights uh like it never used to be but the speed cameras there's an inherent

00:03:15.980 sense of lack of fairness there's a gotcha moment i got dinged on one at 10 30 p.m on like a thursday

00:03:23.800 evening a few months ago and it was a street that uh used to be a 40 limit it's now a 30 limit uh there's

00:03:31.100 a school nearby but i wasn't that close to the school and obviously there's no school activity

00:03:35.680 at 10 30 and the ticket says 41. so i got dinged you know 80 bucks for 41 or whatever that's the

00:03:41.000 lie i didn't fight the ticket because that's the way it is but you think like come on like good grief

00:03:45.100 we're clearly just just trying to get a cash grab from people if you're we're charging someone where

00:03:50.160 there's no cop present you got to pay 80 bucks because you went 41 kilometers an hour on on this

00:03:55.140 street that was 40 up until yesterday kind of thing and that's the inherent sense of of lack of

00:04:00.120 fairness so and then here's my proposal in in a lot of municipalities you have areas where you

00:04:06.300 can't park in certain hours of the day or you can't do this and at the same time police officers

00:04:11.340 will tell you if you're going two or three kilometers over the speed limit they are not

00:04:16.000 going to give you a ticket so how about this in school zones we'll keep it strict from 8 a.m to 4 p.m

00:04:22.120 during school hours but at 10 p.m on a saturday night in a school zone where there's no school

00:04:27.240 and if you're two kilometers over the speed limit you're not going to get a ticket i think

00:04:31.580 that would be fair for a lot of people you would still make your money on the tickets but you

00:04:36.300 wouldn't be getting a ticket for 2k over on a saturday night late at night yeah i'm happy to

00:04:41.560 do a reasonable test here and i think what you're talking about is is reasonable i think we've gone

00:04:45.700 too far there are many speed cameras in school zones some that aren't they came up with this

00:04:49.920 community safety zone phrase but you can just call anything a community safety zone with you know a

00:04:55.040 pass of a of emotion and so forth at city council i think that's where people felt like

00:04:59.480 uh they were definitely being aggrieved and the reason we're seeing this extreme reaction not just

00:05:03.920 the people knocking these down or the one person or whatever it's kind of funny we can't find out

00:05:08.840 who this person is but we can find everybody else we got cameras everywhere in society i still don't

00:05:13.380 understand that so it really makes me kind of chuckle that this person's been able to do all this

00:05:18.640 and i do not support vandalism no public property it's it's not a good situation we're at but it is

00:05:24.460 reflective of the pulse of the city that this is a metaphor for how people feel and if we had first

00:05:31.500 approached it in the type of scenarios you're talking about here people i think would have gone

00:05:36.100 oh okay i got this ticket but man you know the kids are coming out for lunch hour i get it like

00:05:40.700 why were you going over 40 when there's clearly little kids walking around right in this moment so

00:05:46.020 there's to your point there are better ways to have done it out of the get-go and you raised a

00:05:51.000 couple of very salient points anthony um every police force in this country are short-staffed

00:05:56.440 most often officers go in the cruiser alone when they call for backup they have to wait for another

00:06:00.940 car because they simply don't have enough people enough officers men and women manning their

00:06:05.680 respective platoons and their time shift to cover all parts of the city and municipalities but

00:06:11.140 there's no question olivia child the city of toronto are facing a dire cash crunch

00:06:15.960 and the money from these tickets are paying a lot of bills otherwise wouldn't get paid

00:06:19.940 and yet the challenge to your point about the policing issue is there are real stories i know

00:06:24.360 someone who had this story they call the cops they say there's a person uh hammering on my door

00:06:28.000 yelling and screaming and and she has a knife crazy lady with a knife and their response was 0.82

00:06:31.900 does she have a gun and they're like excuse me and they have to triage the calls because they're

00:06:37.840 only showing up if and these are just tell her to go away yell at the window to go away excuse me

00:06:41.760 oh and then the next day you get a ticket for 80 dollars for going 42 kilometers it's like okay so

00:06:47.140 i'm the criminal and yet these guys other guys are getting bail for murder you're not coming to my

00:06:52.340 door for crazy people so that's where i think societal trust breaks down i think the speed camera

00:06:57.360 issue is is a societal trust component and it and it's very fair because i mean people of all political

00:07:03.980 stripes no matter what spectrum you fall on far left fall right in the middle young and old there is a

00:07:09.920 sense of frustration with justice in the legal system of the bail system in this country from

00:07:14.940 coast to coast we see it all the time anthony and they're like well wait a second why am i being

00:07:19.560 paid yeah i only went 2k over but i let's come to some common sense we can have common sense in canada

00:07:26.600 have your speed community safety zones in the school zones like from one end to the other and it's well

00:07:32.400 marked that you're in a school zone this is the speed limit and from this time to this time if you go

00:07:37.220 over you will get a ticket and i i can't find any logical reason why someone could complain with that

00:07:44.140 because if you have any sense of decency and you're speeding in the school zone during school hours you

00:07:49.580 should get a ticket yeah and i'm not sure if we even have seen that specific example really happen

00:07:54.280 anywhere in the gta what you're proposing so sure let's give it a shot and see how that unfolds but that

00:07:59.100 would be that would be too reasonable and we know not to expect that from our officials so but

00:08:03.060 but to have the premier weigh in as forcefully as doug ford did one that's the only way it goes

00:08:10.320 you know it's all or nothing it's all or nothing but i was like wow and i mean i live in the bedroom

00:08:15.980 community north of toronto and a lot of communities across the country anthony are reverting to speed

00:08:21.720 cameras a because they simply don't have enough officers to have speed traps everywhere b they're like

00:08:26.780 that's a good way to make money and how it changes i don't know but we haven't heard the last of it

00:08:32.200 but i'm glad you brought that up above vaughn it's something we'll be watching very closely he's anthony

00:08:36.640 fury i'm jim and now you know

True Patriot Love - September 23, 2025

Speed Cameras： Safety Tool or Cash Grab？ The Debate Heats Up in Ontario!

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