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Steven Del Duca
Mayor of Vaughan and former Ontario Liberal Transportation Minister. As minister, Del Duca introduced the legislation enabling automated speed enforcement in 2017. As Vaughan mayor, he launched the city's camera program in April 2025, then paused it after 30,000+ tickets in three weeks, and voted to scrap it entirely in September 2025 — aligning with Ford's public pressure against cameras.
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.
Del Duca introduced the enabling ASE legislation as Liberal Transportation Minister in 2017, then as Vaughan mayor scrapped his own city's camera program in September 2025 under Ford's pressure. Ford praised Del Duca and used a Vaughan press conference to announce the province-wide ban. Del Duca's reversal provided Ford political cover for the ban — demonstrating that even the politician who created the program now opposed it.