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Introducing, our new Pilaros Pita! Also available in pie format Everything It’s not a trend, it’s a tradition! will be www.pilaros.com 1.888.PILAROS • 450.681.6900 Laval’s English Paper, Since 1993 all right! Vol. 28 - No. 08 April 15, 2020 450-978-9999 www.lavalnews.ca [email protected] 120,000 readers House of Commons united in a common front for Canada PAGE 3 $73 billion voted to help sustain businesses Don’t forget about mental health while at home! Information and advice inside. Screen Captures/CPAC 20-210-06FA_Post-it_2-5poX2-5po_EN.indd 1 Follow the law or pay $1000 Senator 20-04-02 13:31 Leo Housacos: Former Laval’s PAGE 27 ‘We will prevail Police chief wife MATURE L I F E versus in danger to catch THE LIFE AND TIMES Covid-19’ OF STEVE BLETAS COVID-19 A LEADING PAGE 5 VOICE OF ENGLISH EDUCATION “You can’t dissuade lead- ers in a society such as ours from taking calculated risks and venturing into unknown Lawyer territory. There will always be needs to fill and opportun- ities to make things better, if you’re willing. I’ve always been willing. It must be part Julius Grey: ‘We of my Greek DNA – yes, we are proud, loud, bombas- tic, hard-headed and pesty, but that’s because we care shouldn’t track enough to turn wishes and dreams into acts of accom- plishment.” – Steve Bletas, former Chairperson of Sir April 15, 2020 • individuals’ Wilfrid Laurier School Board of Laval/North Shore. The Laval News • PAGE 9 PAGE 5 PAGES 11-22 11 PAP-GouvQc-Covid19-Hebdo-Merci-9,833x12,5-EN-HR.pdf 1 2020-04-09 14:54 Thank you for continuing to work. Thank you Thank you for going to the front lines to treat us. Thank you for fighting the invisible enemy. Thank you for answering the call. To all Thank you for taking care of our health. health Thank you for supporting us. Thank you for reassuring us. care Thank you for being so devoted. workers Thank you for being there for us. Thank you for being our guardian angels. • April 15, 2020 The Laval News • 2 Parliament enacts Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy legislation $73 billion in aid expected to start flowing to businesses and citizens MARTIN C. BARRY future amendments to the new law would be longer very difficult, with the technology that to reduce eligibility hurdles that still stand in the we have now: the e-mail, the internet and every- The Trudeau Liberal government’s wage way of some businesses receiving the subsidy. thing else. Everyone can make a large contribu- subsidy legislation to counter the effects of The NDP and the Bloc Québécois also agreed to tion by doing business from home.” the COVID-19 crisis moved swiftly through fast-track the bill in exchange for consideration For her part, Vimy Liberal MP Annie Koutrakis to passage in the House of Commons last week- of their ideas for eventual changes. offered the following advice to people in her end during a rare holiday session that saw MPs riding. “I would say stay close to each other, congratulating one another for their multi-par- Bill gained NDP support whether it’s through a virtual hug or daily tele- tisan cooperation. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said his phone calls or texts,” she said. Help on the way party supported the legislation necessary for “Obviously none of this is easy for anyone. the subsidy to become a reality. He said that What I am doing personally, as well as all our Passage of the legislation, followed by exam- his calls to improve access to the Canada family members, is to social-distance ourselves, ination by the Senate and royal assent by the the trenches in France. The next day they took Emergency Response Benefit were reflected especially because we do have elderly people in Governor General, cleared the way for $73 part in the final battle for Vimy Ridge.” in the bill that ended up being tabled by the our family. The number one thing that I would billion in immediate assistance to companies, “On the eve of this somber anniversary we Liberal government. say is basic for everybody is handwashing first families and individuals across Canada whose remember their courage and sacrifice. These Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet and foremost.” livelihoods remain seriously disrupted by were trials that shaped our country, and more, said that the bill included “some very good COVID-19. its citizens, and now, once again, we are being things” for workers. In a letter to the prime Although the Conservatives still had issues tried. Every one of us has role to play in shield- minister, he wrote that he welcomed several with the way the wage subsidy will be imple- ing our country from the threat it now faces. aspects of the legislation, but noted that it did mented, they agreed to allow the legislation to not include support for businesses struggling be passed anyway so that the recovery could ‘Modern day heroes’ with operational costs. get underway. “And while the battle against COVID-19 isn’t Blanchet said that Finance Minister Morneau A war-like situation a war in the traditional sense of the word, that had acknowledged those concerns. However, he doesn’t make this fight any less destructive, any also expressed concern that temporary foreign In a speech to the relatively small gathering of less dangerous,” Trudeau added. Instead, “the workers arriving in Canada were not being MPs who were called together for the historic frontline is everywhere; our homes, hospitals, tested for COVID-19. parliamentary sitting, Prime Minister Justin care centres, grocery stores, pharmacies and Trudeau compared the situation Canada now gas stations,” he continued, calling the people Laval MPs dealing with COVID finds itself in to a war, with the enemy being who work in these places “modern day heroes.” In Laval, two local MPs have been dealing with a virus that is spreading everywhere silently. The workers, he said, “are separated from their the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on a personal “Without reservation, without pause, we family, and risking their own health, they head level. Laval-Les Îles Liberal MP suggested must fight for every inch of ground against this to work every day so that we can eat, heal, and constituents continue to stock up on food and disease,” said Trudeau. “We must be there for do our part.” other necessities for up to two weeks at a time. Laval-Les Îles Liberal MP Fayçal El- one another as we spare no effort to safeguard In hard times, said Trudeau, “courage and “If you go out, don’t go out until it is absolutely Khoury, whose wife Dr. Georgette Elias our collective future.” strength are not defined but what we say or essential,” he said. “And, you know, once people has a dental practice in Montreal, was Trudeau alluded to the battle of Vimy Ridge do loudly in public, but by the actions we take start applying those rules it will be the best way able to deliver some protective facial while speaking about the current battle being quietly in private, like staying home. Even as we to fight the COVID-19. masks, vinyl gloves and other supplies waged in Canada and around the world against stand apart, we stand united in our resolve to “That and social distancing: doing your job to the CHSLD Sainte-Dorothée on April 2. COVID-19. During his address, the prime do what we must until COVID-19 is defeated.” from home. And this is something that is no minister noted that the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy is the “largest Canadian economic CEWS program enacted policy” since World War II. The bill puts into place the CEWS, whose AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE Like Vimy Ridge purpose is to encourage companies to rehire workers by offering a 75 per cent wage subsidy FROM YOUR MNA “As our generation faces its greatest challenge over the next three months to businesses that yet, we all stand on the shoulders of those who have lost 30 per cent of their revenue as a result came before us and saw our nation through of the crisis. Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Dear Chomedey constituents difficult, tumultuous times in our history,” he businesses that qualify for the subsidy should said. “One hundred and three years ago today, start receiving money within a few weeks. Protecting your health is our priority. young Canadian soldiers found themselves in Among the Conservatives’ suggestions for We take very seriously the instructions of public authorities. We are committed to contribute to reduce Quebec calls for cancellation of the risk of the spread of COVID-19, which is why we remind the population that it is imperative to closely public events until Aug. 31 follow the confinement instructions. (TLN) Quebec Tourism Minister Caroline during the most recent city council meeting that Stay at home and limit contact, both Proulx joined two other members of the CAQ he preferred to wait until May before deciding cabinet on Friday in calling on the organizers of whether to cancel Laval’s Fête nationale cele- indoors and outdoors. Protect yourself, public events over the coming summer to cancel bration and the more than $600,000 expense protect your families, neighbors and or postpone at least until Aug. 31 because of it entails. friends. the ongoing COVID-19 virus crisis. During the city council meeting, the mayor Difficult decision and other elected officials with the adminis- We are there, we continue to serve tration explained that the city has a clause in “The government of Quebec has had to make you while protecting your health and its contract with the organization stagiong the a difficult but necessary decision,” Proulx said in Fête nationale show, allowing Laval to cancel that of our employees.