Ontario COVID-19 Response Framework/Government of Ontario
The province’s Stay At Home order impacting the Kenora-Rainy River region is over.
Our area is now at the Yellow or Protect level.
MPP Greg Rickford doesn’t think the most recent outbreaks of COVID-19 in the Kenora area will impact our standing on the provincial grid.
“We’re committed to keeping (Kenora-Rainy River) in Yellow. We would have to see a significant spike, and I can’t even tell you what that might be in order to change, but that’s not what we’re considering at this point in time at all.”
In an interview with Acadia News, O’Toole proposed a special committee on Canada/US relations.
“We need to have a more serious approach to the most important economic, trade and security relationship Canada has, which is the United States,” explains O’Toole.
“And so we brought a whole debate on that and we’re trying to create a specialized committee to focus on improving this relationship”
O’Toole says now is the right time to set up such a committee with the Biden administration taking over in Washington.
He says Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, the ongoing softwood lumber dispute, steel and aluminum tariffs, just shows the need for such a committee.
National COVID-19 vaccinations continue to dog the federal government.
Kenora MP Eric Melillo says the Conservatives and Canadians are still waiting to see a plan on the rollout of the vaccination.
Melillo stresses the government is failing to communicate and there is a lack of transparency that shows they probably don’t have a plan.
He says the situation is frustrating for everyone and the light of the end of the tunnel seems very far away for us right now with the failure to procure vaccines.
Melillo says they need the government to succeed and they want the government to succeed and he wants the Liberals to work with the Opposition instead of just reading their talking points.