“We (rural Ontario) are being penalized because we’re being put in the same category as bigger areas within the province,” said Prevost. “You’re saying we’re not a hotspot area, so why are we being penalized like we are one then?
“We aren’t here to get a lesson on COVID-19,” he said. “We all are living through it. We represent 70 per cent of your electorate and we are telling you that we need to get this addressed (small business restrictions). If we lose even five or six hairdressers, it seems like nothing to the people of Peel — who, perhaps you’re representing — but it means a lot to us. Our local economy is a very tenuous economic situation. We don’t have 50 people lined up like they have in the GTA.”
“We know about it,” said McDonell.
“Well, you’re not doing anything about it,” Armstrong replied.
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