Ontario Lays Out Plan to Restart Economy as Covid Oubreak Peaks

  • Three-stage approach starts with select workplaces, parks
  • ‘We aren’t going to be rushed into anything,’ Premier says

Doug Ford delivers meals to healthcare workers in Toronto on April 24, 2020.

Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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It could be August before Ontario’s economy is fully back in business after the coronavirus pandemic eases, a time frame that depends heavily on the province seeing a continued decline in cases.

Premier Doug Ford outlined a gradual, phased approach to getting Canada’s largest provincial economy back to work that relies on criteria set out by the chief officer of health.