April 1, 2021

The Premier of Ontario today announced that the government is implementing a province wide ’emergency brake’ to address the recent surge in case numbers and COVID-19 hospitalizations. 

This is different from the full shutdown that was put in place December 26, 2020 and similar in many aspects to the grey lockdown protocols that some public health regions are operating under today.

The emergency brake will be effective Saturday, April 3, 2021, at 12:01 a.m. and the government intends to keep this in place for at least four weeks. 

The announcement also states that employers in all industries should make every effort to allow employees to work from home.

I have summarized some of the restrictions of the emergency brake for you below, followed by the full text of the announcement.

Measures in the emergency brake include, but are not limited to:

• Prohibiting indoor organized public events and social gatherings
• Limiting the capacity for outdoor organized public events or social gatherings to a 5-person maximum, except for gatherings with members of the same household (the people you live with) or gatherings of members of one household and one other person from another household who lives alone.
• Restricting in-person shopping in all retail settings:
  • 50 per cent capacity limit for supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, indoor farmers’ markets, other stores that primarily sell food and pharmacies, and
  • 25 per cent capacity for all other retail including big box stores, along with other public health and workplace safety measures;
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• Prohibiting personal care services;
• Prohibiting indoor and outdoor dining. Restaurants, bars and other food or drink establishments will be permitted to operate by take-out, drive-through, and delivery only;
• Prohibiting the use of facilities for indoor or outdoor sports and recreational fitness (e.g., gyms) with very limited exceptions;
• Requiring day camps to close; and,
• Limiting capacity at weddings, funerals, and religious services, rites or ceremonies to 15 per cent occupancy per room indoors, and to the number of individuals that can maintain two metres of physical distance outdoors. This does not include social gatherings associated with these services such as receptions, which are not permitted indoors and are limited to five people outdoors.

Ontarians are asked to limit trips outside the home to necessities such as food, medication, medical appointments, supporting vulnerable community members, or exercising outdoors with members of their household.

The full text of the News release can be found at »» this link on the government of Ontario website.