The move largely guts the Safe Streets Act, passed by the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris in 1999 amid years of controversy over so-called “squeegee kids.”
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The organization Fair Change argues the Mike Harris-era Safe Streets Act is discriminatory and locks people into cycles of debt with “astronomical fines.”
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