Ontario Extending State Of Emergency Orders And Hydro Rate Relief
Wednesday May 6th, 2020, 9:53am
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The Ontario government is extending all emergency orders made under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act until May 19th and announced further hydro rate relief for residents and businesses.
The emergency orders include closures of non-essential businesses, recreational facilities, limits on the size of gatherings, and others.
The government of Ontario declared a provincial emergency on March 17th. The provincial emergency was last extended on April 14th and was set to end on May 12th.
“Although we are making progress in our fight against this COVID-19 outbreak, we are not out of the woods yet,” said Premier Doug Ford.”
The province is also extending emergency electricity rate relief to residents, small businesses and farms, until until May 31st. Officials say customers who pay time-of-use electricity rates will continue to be billed at the lowest price, known as the off-peak price, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The electricity rate relief originally provided for a 45-day period starting on March 24th.
Officials say there are approximately five million residential consumers, farms and small businesses billed using time-of-use electricity prices under the “Regulated Price Plan” which is billed at 10.1 cents per kilowatt hour during off-peaks.
The province’s emergency orders include the following:
- Closure of Establishments
- Prohibiting Organized Public Events, Certain Gatherings
- Work Deployment Measures for Health Care Workers
- Drinking Water Systems and Sewage Works
- Electronic Service
- Work Deployment Measures in Long -Term Care Homes
- Electricity Price for RPP Consumers
- Closure of Places of Non-Essential Businesses
- Traffic Management
- Streamlining Requirements for Long-Term Care Homes
- Prohibition on Certain Persons Charging Unconscionable Prices for Sales of Necessary Good
- Closure of Outdoor Recreational Amenities
- Enforcement of Orders
- Work Deployment Measures for Boards of Health
- Work Deployment Measures in Retirement Homes
- Access to COVID-19 Status Information by Specified Persons
- Service Agencies Providing Services and Supports to Adults with Developmental Disabilities< /a>
- Pickup and Delivery of Cannabis
- Signatures in Wills and Powers of Attorney
- Use of Force and Firearms in Policing Services
- Child Care Fees
- Agreements Between Health Service Providers and Retirement Homes
- Temporary Health or Residential Facilities
- Closure of Public Lands for Recreational Camping
- Work Deployment Measures for Service Agencies Providing Violence Against Women Residential Services and Crisis Line Services
- Limiting Work to a Single Long-Term Care Home
- Work Deployment Measures for District Social Services Administration Boards
- Deployment of Employee s of Service Provider Organizations
- Work Deployment Measures for Municipalities
- Limiting Work to a Single Retirement Home
- Work Deployment Measures for Mental Health and Addictions Agencies
- Congregate Care Settings
- Access to Personal Health Information by Means of the Electronic Health Record
- Global Adjustment for Market Participants and Consumers
- Certain Persons Enabled to Issue Medical Certificates of Death
- Hospital Credentialing Processes