There's a tug of war going on at Queen's Park when it comes to community safety.
The Liberals are blaming Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls for stalling their bill on community safety, while Nicholls is blaming the Grits for wanting to grab all the headlines.
Nicholls says the Liberals have shot down his bill to use video to catch and convict drivers blowing by flashing, stopped school buses.
"There were a number of amendments put forth by our party to help enhance Bill 65 and I think they were just overwhelmed. It didn't matter what we brought forward, their answer was going to be no," says Nicholls.
The Liberals bill would allow cameras in community safety zones and school zones to take pictures of speeder's licence plates.
Nicholls says he keeps pushing to have his bill amendment go back to committee within two weeks for consideration.
"We're going to have to have a meeting with the house leaders and they're going to have to decide to push this bill because the government has already commented on it," Nicholls says. "They like the bill, but as I said, they didn't want it as part of Bill 65."
Nicholls says his bill is still alive and he'll keep applying pressure to eventually get it included in the Liberal bill.
"It is what it is right now and we'll just continue to put pressure on the government to get this bill called into committee," Nicholls says.
