Juno News - May 04, 2020


We need to reopen the economy now

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Doug Ford
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2 minutes

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Word count

423

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26


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When the facts change, your game plan should change as well. This applies to many things in life, and especially applies to the reopening plans that various premiers across the country are currently grappling with. We ve seen a number of plans introduced across different provinces over the past couple weeks. Some have hard and fast dates of when they re going to reopen. Some don t.

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00:00:00.000 When the facts change, your game plan should change as well. This applies to many things in
00:00:11.240 life. It especially applies to the reopening plans that various premiers across the country
00:00:16.380 are currently grappling with. We've seen a number of plans introduced across different
00:00:21.300 provinces over the past couple weeks. Some of them have hard and fast dates of when they're
00:00:25.500 going to reopen. Some of them don't. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, he announced a plan last Monday.
00:00:30.560 There were no dates, and a lot of people were upset with that. They said, we will reopen when
00:00:35.780 there have been two weeks of declining cases. I thought, oh, okay, that seems kind of reasonable.
00:00:41.140 Then on Friday, Doug Ford said, well, hold on, we're actually going to allow a selective reopening
00:00:45.520 on Monday, this coming Monday. Well, that's actually pretty good news because they looked at the
00:00:50.620 situation, and they realized the facts had changed, so they were willing to slightly revise
00:00:56.040 the plans. That's what we're going to have to do moving forward because we are learning
00:00:59.560 two different things right now. We're learning a whole lot of things, but two things I want to
00:01:03.600 bring up in particular. One is that the coronavirus in Canada is not as bad as the models projected it
00:01:09.760 would be, not as bad as many people, myself included, feared it would be when it first came here in late
00:01:15.020 January, early February. That is great news. It's cold comfort to those who have lost loved ones from
00:01:19.980 this, but it's great news more largely that, you know, the number is not as big as it could have
00:01:25.160 been. The second thing that tells us though, and the other thing we're learning, is that every day
00:01:29.920 the secondary harms get worse. The number of people who could die because of delayed surgeries for other
00:01:35.600 ailments, the jobs lost, the business is closed. It is absolutely vital that we reopen as soon as is
00:01:42.320 possible, as soon as is safe. So do not just stick to the plans because we've set a date. If we can open
00:01:48.380 something earlier, we must. It is absolutely vital that we do not lose a day, even an hour of letting
00:01:55.900 businesses, letting the economy, letting our regular life somewhat resume, yes, with physical distancing
00:02:01.820 place, with enhanced public hygiene. But we need to push for this because right now there is so much on the line.
00:02:07.900 And we have to stay here.
00:02:12.480 And here is another one behind us.