Quebec Premier Francois Legault addressed the media on Tuesday, giving details on the province's plan to reopen the economy.
Legault acknowledged that it would be a challenge to "restart the economy without restarting the pandemic," giving insight into what measures would be taken to ensure there is not another spike.
Legault said businesses would be able to reopen if they are not in shopping malls, and said that construction would resume in the province as of May 11.
Regarding the economy, Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said that opening stores would allow 196,000 get back to work.
Manufacturing facilities will also be allowed to open, though there will be hard caps on the amount of people working per shift.
Legault said a detailed plan of which businesses would be allowed to reopen would be released in the coming days.
Schools will also be opening as of May 11. Parents will not be obliged to send their children back to school.
Different approach from different provinces
Over in Ontario, Premier Ford briefly discussed Premier Francois Legault's decision of reopening schools, with Ford saying the decision was Quebec's to make.
Ford said he "doesn't want to put our kids at risk," saying that "crowded classrooms" were not the place to protect children at all costs.
“We don’t want to put our kids at risk... I’m not going to put our children in the classroom, crowded classroom, I’m just not going to do it,” said Ontario Premier @fordnation responding to Quebec’s plan to reopen elementary schools. pic.twitter.com/xcG8C0PWgc
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"I wouldn't do that here in Ontario," Ford concluded.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked whether or not he would hypothetically send his children back to school in Quebec, the province with the most cases in total, Trudeau said that he would "have to look at what the situation looked like in two weeks," adding that he would need to know what the school was doing to ensure that children were staying safe.
“I would look at what the situation looked like in 2 weeks… I'd want to know what the school was planning on doing, whether the desks were going to be properly spaced...” said @JustinTrudeau when asked if he would send his kids back to school in 2 weeks https://t.co/MKY6izIhJu pic.twitter.com/gLEtGORkf0
— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) April 28, 2020
Quebec announced an addition 775 confirmed cases of the virus today, accounting for over half of the national total at 26,757 cases. Quebec's death count also rose by 82 to 1682, again accounting for over half of the total.
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