According to an analysis by the union-led Ontario Health Coalition, the number of cases in the manufacturing sector in that province soared by 76 per cent over a recent two-week period. Those kind of workplaces are far from the sole source of coronavirus spread, with long-term care facilities, for instance, accounting for many more cases. But they’ve been given too little attention in the pandemic fight, argues Patrick Brown, Brampton’s mayor and a former provincial Conservative leader. “I’ve been told by senior officials in the federal government and the provincial government ‘Oh, we could never shut down those sectors. There wouldn’t be food in the grocery stores across Canada, or there wouldn’t be medical supplies that come in from the U.S.’

Source: National Post December 18, 2020 11:04 UTC