"Let us be very clear, while we want to be optimistic, we need to be absolutely cautious," Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos said Saturday.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the extension for the closure restricting non-essential travel across the border, which began on March 21 and was set to expire on Tuesday. Despite continuing grim news, glimmers of hope emerged this week as provinces and cities reported slower growth of the virus, and officials began discussing moves towards a "new normal."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said his province's approach will be based on health advice and will only move forward with re-opening with medical officials' green light. He added that there are various scenarios playing out across the province. "If we open too quickly, too soon or in the wrong way, we could find ourselves back in this situation a couple of months from now and everything we will have sacrificed during these months will have been for naught," Trudeau said.
Trudeau's government has so far held off on defining guidelines for provinces looking to lift restrictions, as Trump did for U.S. governors earlier this week.
Every single person complaining about the lockdown in the comments, will be crying when sh*it hits the fan.
BC can open up. It’s fine.
Those who lift the bands too early should be charged with criminal negligence for any new cases
I agree caution necessary but remember all the money they dole out is ours Eventually they run out and we have to go back to refill the coffers So hopefully they manage covid better now than at first
Open up too soon it hasnt hit us yet people will die
No shit, some provinces have little to no cases. Slowly open things up to help take some of the burden off the rest of Canada. Restrict traveling. Open some business and parks. But no traveling. Keep group gatherings to a minimum.
Then what is the F'ing point Ont, Quebec are hot spots. The rest of the country needs to support them by staying the F home. It will help the rest of the country as well. I thought Canadians were smarter then this Watching too much Fox News perhaps?
It’s too late. The damage done. More will die from the economic collapse than the coronavirus. fordnation , JustinTrudeau , jkenney and other politicians should be arrested for breaking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
liberal_party caution: closing borders doesn’t work to closing the border....masks don’t work to wear a mask if you want to you have to wear a mask flying now, no airport screening STILL.....what a sh*tnami of a short bus driving Govt. this is. CDNs are dying because of Skippy!
We are all gonna get sick. 🤬
Let’s stay the course!