One of Canada’s biggest retailers is asking the Ontario Superior Court to push aside the provincial government’s lockdown orders in Toronto and neighbouring Peel Region, arguing the rules are “incoherent and devoid of logic.”
Hudson’s Bay Co. ULC on Thursday called on the court to quash the government’s lockdown rules that have forced it to shutter stores during their busiest season of the year.
The company’s 12 Hudson’s Bay stores in Ontario’s lockdown regions normally make up to 20 per cent of their annual sales during December’s holiday shopping rush. But Ontario has banned non-essential retailers in Toronto and Peel from opening for in-store shopping since late November.
Big-box chains that sell groceries, including Walmart, Loblaw and Costco, are exempt from the order and the government has not stopped them from also selling clothes, electronics and other non-essential items.
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