The courts and the Crown prosecutor now consider most evidence from photo radar inadmissable as hearsay, yet despite this Quebec Transport Minister Laurent Lessard has said they are here to stay—the monetary benefits may help explain why.
A TVA Nouvelles investigation shows since photo radars were first installed in the province in 2009, the Quebec government has pocketed $116 million in fines acrued from speeding tickets obtained using photo radars.
Mobile radars particularly are seeing significant growth, profit-wise.
By 2015, they had generated $26 million in revenue since they first began being used. By the end of 2016, that number had jumped to over $46 million.