Ontario Premier Doug Ford noted that Toronto, Peel and York have 40 per cent of the province’s population but 60 per cent of new COVID cases. And yet, for Toronto and Peel, the big, new strategy is no patios. Across the province, businesses will remain open, but at a lower capacity and things that have been shut down before will be shut down again. Apparently the government thinks that controlling when you get your hair cut could be a game changer.
Just to top off his performance, Ford said, twice, that Ontario has the tightest restrictions in North America. The comment came on the same day that Quebec closed schools, stores and restaurants in two major regions and made its curfew earlier.
And let’s not forget Dr. David Williams, the province’s chief medical officer of health. He argued that current restrictions in Toronto and Peel are working. It was hard to square that with the end-of-the-world rhetoric from Brown and Ford.
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