Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Foreign governments' orders (context)
  3. FOR-005

Ex. FOR-005 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

O. Reg. 82/20, Closure of Places of Non-Essential Businesses (made Mar. 24, 2020, 6:15 p.m.; filed Mar. 24, 2020)

Order under subsection 7.0.2(4) - Closure of Places of Non-Essential Businesses

Lieutenant Governor in Council (Order under s. 7.0.2(4) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act) · Canada - Ontario (Foreign government)

Open exhibit (PDF, 156 KB)Source (opens in a new tab)
The COVID Project
Context, not an order

This record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.

The record

Jurisdiction
Canada - Ontario
Level
Foreign government
Authority
Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.9, s. 7.0.2(4)
Issued
2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24 11:59 p.m. (read as 2020-03-24)
End
Amended repeatedly; continued under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 as the 'Shutdown Zone' rules; amended Dec. 21, 2020 for the Provincewide Shutdown from Dec. 26, 2020; province-wide stay-at-home orders Jan. 14 and Apr. 8, 2021 (O. Reg. 11/21, 265/21); Ontario reopened in steps June 11-July 16, 2021 (read as 2021-06-30)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to June 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureSupply chain
Addressees
  • every person responsible for a place of business not listed in Schedule 2
Functions reached
  • SC Ontario suppliers (automotive parts, steel, plastics)
  • DS Canadian customers
  • PF cross-border production networks
Collection
Foreign governments' orders (context) FOR

Operative words

'1. (1) Beginning at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, each person responsible for a place of business that is not listed in Schedule 2 shall ensure that the place of business is closed.' 'essential business' means a business listed in Schedule 2. Recital: 'the supply chain with respect to essential goods, services and resources' must be maintained.

Enforcement

EMCPA s. 7.0.11 (fines up to $100,000 and one year imprisonment for individuals; $10,000,000 for corporations)

Notes

Ontario is the largest foreign source of automotive parts for Michigan, Ohio and Indiana assembly; the closure idled the parts plants for the period the Detroit Three and Michigan's EO 2020-21 idled assembly, and the Provincewide Shutdown and stay-at-home orders of December 2020-June 2021 re-limited them.

Retrieval note

As-made text read; successor history is secondary.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.