Further Details On Ontario's "Stay At Home" Order

As we reported in our Communique on January 12, 2021, on Tuesday Premier Doug Ford announced that the Province of Ontario would be imposing a stay-at-home order effective as of midnight January 13, 2021. Only a handful of hours before the order was coming into effect, the Government of Ontario released the Stay-At-Home Order (the "Order") and Regulation 10/21 (the "Regulation") which sets out the amendments to the existing rules in Stage 1 of Ontario's reopening plan.

The Order requires all individuals in Ontario to stay at home at all times. The Order provides 29 reasons individuals may leave their home, including:

• Attending work, if the nature of the work requires the individual to leave the residence, including circumstances where the individual's employer has determined that the nature of the work requires attendance at the workplace;