Essential retailers will have to further lower capacity limits to 25 per cent, indoor religious services will be limited to 10 people, and non-essential construction will have to shut down.

The agency has committed up to $655 million toward construction of a $1.7-billion project that will connect Ontario’s electricity grid with a regional transmission organization in the US. Part of the project involves running a transmission line under Lake Erie.

CBTU executive director Sean Strickland calls for the federal government to pass a private member's bill that would allow for expenses for trades people travelling more than 80 kilometres to a job site to be tax deductible.

The governments made the announcement on April 14, and the funding will be used to provide critical infrastructure upgrades to protect students and staff from COVID-19.

The federal and provincial governments have announced more than $2.2 million in funding for a series of community-building projects in Milton, St-Charles and Ottawa.