Ontario Protecting Taxpayers by Banning Municipal Speed Cameras

September 25, 2025

To improve road safety, the province is establishing a new provincial fund to proactively support road and school zone safety without raising costs for drivers.

At a time when governments at all levels should be doing everything they can to lower costs and make life more affordable, too many municipalities are using speed cameras as a cash grab.

That is why our government is introducing legislation that will ban municipal speed cameras across the province. At the same time, we are establishing a new provincial fund to proactively support road and school zone safety without raising costs for drivers.

The new fund will help affected municipalities implement alternative safety measures to prevent speeding, including proactive traffic-calming initiatives like speed bumps, roundabouts, raised crosswalks and curb extensions, as well as public education and improved signage, to slow down drivers.

Since 2019, over 700 municipal speed cameras have been installed in 40 municipalities across Ontario, with more currently planned for installation in the coming months.

If passed, our legislation will prevent the use of municipal speed cameras in Ontario immediately upon Royal Assent. The province will also introduce requirements for municipalities with existing speed cameras in school zones to install large new signs in advance of a school zone to slow down drivers by mid-November 2025, with permanent, large signs with flashing lights to be in place by September 2026.

Enough is enough. Instead of making life more expensive by sending speeding tickets to drivers weeks after the fact, we’re supporting road-safety measures that will prevent speeding in the first place, keep costs down and keep our streets safe.