Doug Ford defends 3-day sick day program after Ontario science table says it is not enough

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his three-day sick leave program at a virtual news conference Friday held while in isolation after experts with the province’s science advisory table blatantly said it was not enough curb the spread of COVID-19.

The science table presented the latest COVID-19 modelling data on Thursday. The data showed that without stronger measures such as “effective sick pay,” a further shortlist of essential workplaces, lower mobility and more vaccinations, daily cases would remain above 2,000 in June and the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care could remain around the 800 mark throughout the next month.

“We've modeled the strong, effective sick pay as beginning immediately, lasting for essentially two work weeks—so 10 days—and being at a level that allows people to not have to make difficult choices,” Brown added. The Ford government's sick leave program, which will give employees three days of paid emergency leave during COVID-1, passed the legislature Thursday. His government has previously described the plan as “the most comprehensive plan in the entire country" and the best in North America.

“That’s not something that the federal government can deliver, with the exception of federally regulated industries,” Trudeau said Friday of Ontario’s bid to double the CRSB. “As for the workplace, where these variants coming in, well, the variants within the workplace … are coming from the borders,” he said. “Hundreds and hundreds of people are trying to buck the system and walk across the border, and they don't have to quarantine. You can't have two sets of rules. You can’t have a set of rules for the people who are flying into the airport and another totally set of rules at the land border.

 

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THREE whole sick days while you got $800.00 per day for your isolation!! Come down from your ivory tower once in awhile and see what people are really suffering! Hmm wish I could swear and get away with it!

Ford received 10 PAID days .... but 3 is good enough for people who may live pay cheque to pay cheque.... hypocrisy thiswillneverend PaidSickLeave VoteFordOut2022

Your brain cannot process full measures only half measures. Well we cant expect much from doug he clearly showed he has no good intentions. Im glad people now know Canada is worse then a fucking third world country. Doug ford at least leave with respect fordnation

Maybe he would feel differently but he had to use this program, but he has adequate sick leave, plus a home and cottage to quarantine in.

Cool, guess I’ll be going to work sick anyways cause what the fuck is 3 days gonna do. Allow me to go to work during the most contagious period with Covid What a joke

Hobos just to want to leach more tax payers money, I say if you want paid leavez, talk to your employer, not the government.

How about the science table, Andrea Horwath & Steven del duca offer to take a pay cut to help pay for the extra sick days so it doesn't come out of taxpayers wallets at the end of the day. Easy for them to misinform the public & fail to show a working budget with paid sick days.

Maybe he missed the report from the science table. Hes been hiding in a basement for 2 weeks now and can't use a laptop.

The idiocy never ends.

Never happy .Be happy is better be happy

I’m still waiting for buck-a-beer bro

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