More than 120,000 workers who completed training between February 28, 2018 and August 31, 2017 will see their certifications extended by a year.

The recommendations include deeming the planning, design, construction and operation of important infrastructure as essential services, and jump-starting infrastructure projects to keep the industry working.

A negative consequence of the Ontario government's introducing emergency measures is that publication of certificates of substantial performance and the corresponding release of holdbacks were effectively frozen in time. This will affect cash flow in construction.

The national association has published a list of standard protocols for worksites, while IHSA has published a collection of resources, practices and links.

Any statutory time period requiring you, as a contractor, to take a certain step, including those for the registration of a claim for lien, is now extended retroactively from March 16 until the emergency is declared to be at an end.