“The Provincial government is putting measures in place to protect our supply chains and critical supplies,” says MPP Bill Walker.
Protecting Supply Chains To Support COVID-19 Emergency Response
Ontario continues to take important steps to protect the province’s supply chain and make sure that frontline worker have the essential goods and services they need like ventilators, masks and swabs.
This will include working with innovators, businesses and manufacturers to redeploy capacity to help supply essential emergency products and cutting-edge solutions.
Go to
Ontario Together and sign up if you can provide medical products or have ideas to help communities withstand the pandemic.
Protecting Critical Supplies: Price Gouging is Illegal
Premier Ford announced new penalties to combat price gouging and hold offenders
accountable for raising prices significantly on necessary goods. These new measures are effective immediately and apply to those who have increased prices on these goods since March 17, 2020.
Premier Ford announced new penalties to combat price gouging and hold offenders accountable for raising prices significantly on necessary goods. These new measures are effective immediately and apply to those who have increased prices on these goods since March 17, 2020.
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Helping to Support Families and Businesses in Ontario During Pandemic
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The Ontario government is delivering $3.7 billion to protect people and jobs and $10 billion to improve cash flows for people and businesses during this time of economic uncertainty.
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- Supporting more affordable electricity bills for eligible residential, farm and small business consumers, by providing approximately $5.6 billion for electricity cost relief programs in 2020-21
- Setting electricity prices for residential, farm and small business time-of-use customers at the lowest rate, known as the off-peak price, 24 hours a day for 45 days and addressing concerns on metering
- Cutting taxes by $355 million dollars for about 57,000 employers through a proposed temporary increase to the Employer Health Tax (EHT) exemption
- Making available $6 billion by providing five months of interest and penalty relief for businesses to file and make payments for the majority of provincially administered taxes
- Deferring in the upcoming June 30 quarterly municipal remittance of education property tax to school boards by 90 days, which will provide over $1.8 billion in relief to businesses by providing municipalities the flexibility to, in turn, provide property tax deferrals to residents and businesses, while ensuing school boards continue to receive their funding
- Making available $1.9 billion by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) allowing employers to defer payments for up to six months. Visit https://www.wsib.ca/en/financialrelief
- Helping to support regions lagging in employment growth with a proposed new Corporate Income Tax Credit, the Regional Opportunities Investment Tax Credit
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