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Existing federal social security programs were modified to provide additional financial support to their recipients. Canada Child Benefit payments were given a one-time increase of $300 per child, [3] the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit for the 2019 tax year was doubled, [4] and personal income tax deadlines for 2019 were extended.
The eighth season of the Global series Big Brother Canada abruptly ended production on 24 March 2020 due to the Ontario government's mandatory 14-day closure of all non-essential workplaces. There was no winner, with the prize money subsequently donated to charities responding to COVID-19.
The following had been the provincial governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario. Personal protective equipment donation tent at North York General Hospital. COVID-19 safety notice on playground equipment at a park in Vaughan An Alert Ready message sent out on March 27, 2020 as seen on an iPhone 11 using iOS 13.
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 – March 2020; Families First Coronavirus Response Act – March 2020; Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) – Includes $1200 stimulus checks, March 2020; Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act – April 2020
This changed during the COVID-19 pandemic where every province and territory made the declaration, opposing similar measures from the federal government. Every province has the ability to assume emergency powers under either a specific emergency act or under a public health act.
A formal system of equalization payments was first introduced in 1957. [7] [ Notes 1]. The original program had the goal of giving each province the same per-capita revenue as the two wealthiest provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, in three tax bases: personal income taxes, corporate income taxes and succession duties (inheritance taxes).
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario was a viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Canada was announced on January 25, 2020, involving a traveller who had recently returned to Toronto from travel in China , including ...
The Reopening Ontario Act is an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario that grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the ability to continue "orders made under sections 7.0.2 and 7.1 of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act in relation to (the) COVID-19 (pandemic)".