What changed
- Part XIV.1 of the Highway Traffic Act, sections 205.1 to 205.14, was repealed by section 5 of Schedule 5 to the Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025. That Part was automated speed enforcement.
- Three camera Parts were left standing: Part XIV.2 red light camera system evidence, Part XIV.3 school bus camera system, and Part XIV.4 automated street car enforcement.
- The repeal took effect on 14 November 2025, not on Royal Assent. The Schedule set its own commencement date eleven days after the Act was assented to.
What was repealed, and when
Section 5 of Schedule 5 to the Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 repeals Part XIV.1 of the Highway Traffic Act. That Part ran from section 205.1 to section 205.14 and was the authority for automated speed enforcement. The consolidated Act now carries those section numbers with the single word Repealed against them.
The Act was assented to on 3 November 2025. Section 12 of the Schedule sets commencement at the later of 14 November 2025 and Royal Assent, so the repeal landed on 14 November 2025.
The announcement in September 2025 said the legislation would prevent the use of municipal speed cameras immediately upon Royal Assent. The Schedule as enacted set a date eleven days later. Where an announcement and a commencement section disagree, the commencement section is the one that decides.
Which camera tickets still issue?
Three kinds. Part XIV.2 is red light camera system evidence, and it starts at section 205.15. Part XIV.3 is the school bus camera system. Part XIV.4 is automated street car enforcement.
Section 11 of the Schedule confirms the shape of what is left. It replaced the list in subsection 210.1(1) with a single paragraph covering a proceeding based on evidence obtained through an automated system described in Part XIV.2, Part XIV.3 or Part XIV.4.
Section 2 does the same work in the other direction. It amended subsection 12(2.4) by striking out the words an electronic toll system, automated speed enforcement system or red light camera system and substituting an electronic toll system or red light camera system. The red light camera reference survived the edit on purpose.
So a driver who reads that Ontario has banned camera tickets has read half of it. The speed camera is gone. The camera at the intersection is not.
The school zone sign power
Section 4 of the same Schedule added section 128.0.1 to the Highway Traffic Act, and it commenced on Royal Assent rather than eleven days later. The Minister may issue a directive requiring a municipality to install signs in school zones on highways under its jurisdiction, and may specify a date for completion.
A municipality that receives one shall comply with it. Where it does not, the Minister or somebody acting for the Minister may enter upon the highway and do what is necessary to install the signs, despite any requirement that would otherwise apply under an Act, regulation, by-law, order, permit, approval or licence.
Obstructing that installation is prohibited by subsection (5).
What happened to the camera contracts
Section 9 added section 206.6, which extinguishes the claims that a repeal of this kind would ordinarily produce. No cause of action arises against a municipality, its council or members or staff, or against the Crown, as a direct or indirect result of a camera supply contract being broken, terminated or frustrated following the repeal of Part XIV.1.
Subsection (2) goes further and says no costs, compensation or damages, including for loss of revenue or profit, are owing, and no remedy in contract, restitution or tort is available. Subsection (3) bars the proceeding itself.
Two things are carved out by subsection (4): an application for judicial review, and a claim for a constitutional remedy. Subsection (6) says none of it amounts to an expropriation or injurious affection, and subsection (7) leaves proceedings brought by the Crown alone.
The detail sits on Red light camera tickets, which is kept current as the rules move.
