COVID restrictions
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Toronto, February 15, 2022 – As governments and public well being officers start to carry or reassess COVID restrictions, new information from the Canadian Federation of Unbiased Enterprise (CFIB) present Canada’s small enterprise house owners help lifting most COVID restrictions, with the strongest name to remove capability limits, journey restrictions corresponding to PCR border assessments, and vaccine passports for purchasers.
“Whereas lockdowns are ending, many different expensive COVID restrictions on companies stay in place throughout the nation. When a restaurant or fitness center is barely allowed 50 per cent capability, they’re possible shedding cash daily.
Earlier CFIB information exhibits that vaccine passports have elevated prices and led to additional drops in gross sales,” mentioned Dan Kelly, CFIB president. “It’s welcome information that some public well being officers at the moment are overtly questioning their worth with the Omicron variant.”
When requested which enterprise restrictions must be eradicated, small enterprise house owners mentioned:
“Whereas there may be majority help for eradicating most COVID restrictions amongst small enterprise house owners, it must be famous that the view will not be common.
Some enterprise house owners really feel that vaccine passports make clients really feel safer and, in some Atlantic provinces, a majority of counsel masks guidelines ought to proceed in the intervening time,” Kelly added.
Small corporations are calling on all governments to announce a fast and orderly plan to take away all COVID enterprise restrictions and a strong plan for them to remain open.
Any restrictions on enterprise actions that stay must be based mostly on clearly-communicated scientific proof with targets and dates shared for his or her removing.
“The reintroduction of enterprise restrictions to take care of the Omicron variant was a tricky blow for struggling small companies that set again restoration,” Kelly mentioned. Solely 34 per cent of small companies are making regular ranges of gross sales.
“And even lifting restrictions doesn’t imply that clients will flood again to their native small corporations.
Till public well being officers and governments can reassure customers that it’s secure to return to workplace work, purchasing, eating, occasions and journey, the COVID financial hangover will proceed for a lot of components of Canada’s financial system.”
For media enquiries or interviews, please contact:
Milena Stanoeva, CFIB
647-464-2814
[email protected]
Methodology
Your Voice – February 2022: A web based survey accomplished by 3,412 CFIB members between February 9-14, 2022.
For comparability functions, a likelihood pattern with the identical variety of respondents would have a margin of error of ±1.7 per cent, 19 instances out of 20.
Outcomes obtained thus far are preliminary.
About CFIB
The Canadian Federation of Unbiased Enterprise (CFIB) is Canada’s largest affiliation of small and medium-sized companies with 95,000 members throughout each trade and area.
CFIB is devoted to growing enterprise house owners’ probabilities of success by driving coverage change in any respect ranges of presidency, offering professional recommendation and instruments, and negotiating unique financial savings.
Be taught extra at cfib.ca.