My hope/mild-expectation for Trudeau's financial package press conference tomorrow:
- unenforceable requirement that everyone must stay home except to get food, medicine, necessary supplies
- all offices/churches/gyms/etc. with more than 5 people must close. Everyone (except essential services including grocery and pharmacy) encouraged to close, if more than 1.
- no gatherings of more than 10 people (current recommendation: 50)
- all restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc., must do delivery/pickup only; can’t have more than 10 people working
- fed tax deadline pushed back to June 1 (filing) + July 31 (payment) (Quebec already did this)
- shortened EI timeline, waiver of waiting period, special circumstances to allow easier qualification, added resources to administer this
- mortgage holiday until May 1
- immediate stimulus cheques going out; maybe up to $1000 (everyone); treated as a tax credit
- federal corporate tax cut for small business, more coming from provinces