Andrea Khanjin
Ontario Minister of Red Tape Reduction who tabled Bill 56, the Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 — the omnibus bill that bundled the province-wide speed camera ban with unrelated regulatory changes. The bill received Royal Assent as Chapter 11 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2025.
Connected Scandals
Ford's government legalized speed cameras in 2019, then banned them in 2025 — ignoring peer-reviewed evidence that they cut school-zone speeding by 45% — after his own cabinet ministers' vehicles racked up 23 speed camera tickets and hit stunt-driving speeds.
As Minister of Red Tape Reduction, Khanjin tabled Bill 56, the omnibus legislation that banned speed cameras province-wide. By bundling the camera ban into a broader 'red tape reduction' bill, the government limited focused debate on the public safety implications of removing proven life-saving technology from school zones.
The Ford government promised a comprehensive environmental assessment for a proposed landfill directly upstream from Canada's only population of the salamander mussel — then buried the reversal inside omnibus Bill 5 after winning a byelection on the promise, exempting a company whose owners donated $200,000 to the PCs from all provincial environmental review, leaving 33 species at risk in one of Canada's most biodiverse rivers with no provincial protection.
As Environment Minister, Khanjin announced the province would require a comprehensive environmental assessment for the York1 landfill in March 2024 — a commitment made just before the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex byelection. Schedule 3 of Bill 5 reversed that commitment. Khanjin was named in the Integrity Commissioner complaint filed by MPP Ted Hsu; she denied involvement in developing Schedule 3. The Commissioner declined to investigate.
Buried in Schedule 9 of a red-tape omnibus bill, Bill 105 would end the rule that stops the WSIB from reopening a permanently injured worker's benefits more than six years after the injury. The bill has not passed — it is awaiting third reading — and the Ministry of Labour will not say why the protection is being removed.
Minister of Red Tape Reduction and the sponsor of Bill 105, the Protecting Ontario's Workers and Economic Resilience Act, 2026. Its Schedule 9 would remove the 72-month WSIB "lock-in" by confining the existing section 44 of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 to older claims and putting future and recent claims under a new section 44.1 with no bar on how often the Board may review, vary or discontinue a worker's loss-of-earnings payments. The bill was reported as amended and ordered for third reading on May 25, 2026. CBC asked the province why it wants the lock-in removed and the Ministry of Labour declined to say, stating only that it is "engaging with stakeholders."