As Ontarians emerge from the stricter quarantine phases of the
COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and industries are taking stock of
the new realities and their impacts on business practices and
plans. While many construction professionals are engaged in the
same process of evaluating changes and readjusting plans, the
Ontario construction industry has, in these early days, followed a
fairly unique path and may be further along the learning curve than
other industries in Ontario.
Today, work continues on most projects that have been deemed
"essential". The current trend has seen the provincial
government add more categories of construction projects to the
"essential" services list. As the quarantined parts of
the construction industry bring themselves back online, we are all
discovering what impact the pandemic has had on the contractual and
legal obligations relating to construction contracts and
construction projects. While there will undoubtedly be a host of
legal
