I'm not going to lie, its kind of crazy to me that Ontario is opening up with 200 new cases a day, when British Columbia, Canada's third largest province, only had 12 new cases yesterday. Ontario is bigger than BC but not by THAT much. I know everyone wants to open up but it's crazy how 2 different parts of the same country were affected so differently
I agree (and especially when the 200 cases a day is just Toronto and there's the same again in the rest of the province!) but it's the kind of genie it's hard to get back into the bottle. When you announce easing of restrictions and then turn around and retract that before they've even happened, you risk people losing trust in the government and starting to ignore restrictions anyway and that would be disastrous with community transmission still happening. If they get testing and contact tracing rates up and keep people on board with social distancing through the first easing of restrictions, though, it might be okay.