安省商業租金补助申请，帮助受疫情影响小商户租客

The Ontario government, in partnership with the federal government, has launched the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) for small businesses. The province is committing $241 million to the program, which will provide more than $900 million in support for small businesses across Ontario during this difficult time.  To find out how much rent support you may be eligible for, visit Ontario.ca/rentassistance.

The CECRA for small businesses, administered by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), provides forgivable loans to eligible commercial landlords to help cover 50 per cent of commercial rent for tenants for the months of April, May and June 2020. The tenant will be responsible for covering up to 25 per cent of rent, so that up to 75 per cent of the rent is covered.

To receive the forgivable loan, eligible commercial landlords will be required to enter into a rent reduction agreement with their impacted small business tenants for April to June 2020, which includes committing to a moratorium on evictions for three months.

今日，本省全体商业地产所有者都可以申请地租救济金，以此帮助他们受疫情影响的小商户租客。

鉴于本省正在逐渐、安全的重启经济，该倡议将帮助更多小商户维持屹立不倒，并令更多人有业可就。

省府同联邦政府一道，成立了“加拿大紧急地租援助计划”(CECRA)，旨在支持小商户。值此困难时期，省府将出资2.41亿元，而计划总共将为本省小商户提供超过9亿元救济金。

该计划由加拿大按揭及房屋公司(Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)管理，并将会为合资格商业地产所有者提供可免除贷款(forgivable loans)，以此方式为租户承担其4月、5月以及6月的50%商业地租。租户仅需承担25%地租，换而言之其地租的75%已被他方所承担。

若想获得可免除贷款，合资格商业地产所有者必须先与他们受疫情影响的租户就4-6月地租达成地租减免协议，协议中包括业主必须承诺不会在三个月中驱逐租户。

TESTING STRATGY & REGIONAL APPROACH

As the province carefully and gradually reopens the economy, the Ontario government is implementing the next phase of its COVID-19 testing strategy to detect and quickly stop the spread of the virus. Testing will now be available to more people in more locations across the province.

Today, Premier Doug Ford and Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, released the next phase of the province's COVID-19 testing plan, Protecting Ontarians Through Enhanced Testing, which includes three branches of testing:

1.   Assessment Centre Testing: expanding who gets tested to now include asymptomatic individuals concerned about exposure and continued routine symptomatic testing at assessment centres.

2.   Targeted Campaigns: detecting and containing cases by expanding asymptomatic surveillance for vulnerable populations, including in long-term care homes and other shared living spaces like shelters and group homes, as well as targeted testing of workplaces in priority sectors which work with priority populations and where it may be difficult to physically distance.

3.   Outbreak Management: testing to ensure rapid and agile response capacity for outbreak management, including in specific neighbourhoods and regions or at hospitals, institutions and workplaces.

Premier Ford said: “The more data we have, the better we understand what is happening on the ground. Having that information, is what will help us determine the best path forward. Because the reality on the ground is different in every part of the province, and now we are getting much better picture of what each region is dealing with. With more testing, the picture becoming more and more clear, and knowing that information, will help us be more precise, it would help us be more targeted, it would help us understand where resources and public support are needed most, that is why now our testing is getting to where we needed. I am now comfortable with asking our officials to look at a regional approach for stage reopening.”

To help enable increased access to routine symptomatic testing, people will no longer need a referral to go to any of the more than 130 assessment centres across Ontario. Information about the assessment centres is now easily accessible on Ontario's dedicated COVID-19 website.

Ontario will also expand proactive surveillance testing to detect outbreaks and more actively monitor any spread among our most vulnerable populations in hospitals, long-term care homes, group homes, shelters, emergency child care centres, correctional facilities and other shared living spaces. This will include testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic residents and frontline staff in long-term care and retirement homes, as well as those working with priority populations, including first responders, essential workers and other workplaces as the economy gradually reopens.

Moving forward, the province expects that private-sector workplace testing will leverage private and public resources as the government works with private-sector employers to develop the appropriate models for each sector and workplace. Further proactive surveillance testing will also be conducted in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.

In response to a declaration of an outbreak in a specific neighbourhood, region, institution or workplace, the province is also developing agile testing resources, such as mobile testing teams, that can be rapidly deployed to communities across Ontario to enhance existing outbreak management.

当下，本省正在谨慎和逐渐的重新启动经济，为此省府亦推出其新冠检测战略的下一阶段，来发现和阻止病毒传播。本省将有更多民众可以接受检测，亦有更多检测地点。

今日，省长福特和副省长兼卫生厅长叶丽雅公布《加强检测，保护民众》(Protecting Ontarians Through Enhanced Testing)，即本省新冠检测战略的下一步。该战略则包含三个支柱：

省府利用检测中心检测：扩大检测范围。若无症状人士担心自己已经接触新冠病毒，则可以接受检测，而检测中心将继续对有症状人士常规检测。

省府开展针对性检测：对无症状弱势群体加强监控，从而发现和控制病例。具体而言，省府将针对长期护理院和其他共居场所(shared living spaces)如庇护所和集体宿舍(group homes)开展行动。同时，鉴于部分行业人士接触优先检测人群，并且其工作场所内难以保持安全距离，因此省府将针对性检测此类工作场所。

省府管控突发疫情：省府将对特定地点进行检测，以此确保省府对于突发疫情有应对能力，而且应对能力即快速又敏捷。地点则包括特定社区或地区，或者本省医院、机构和工作场所。

省长福特说：“我们手中的数据越多，我们就更容易理解实际情况到底是怎样。当我们可以用手中数据，帮助我们去决定未来路线是什么。全省各地情况都不一样，我们现在也对全省各地的情况有了更清楚的认知。因此，如果我们检测了更多人，就能掌握更准确的情况，我们自然可以利用这些信息去做出更精确、更有针对性的决定，还能让我们了解哪些地区最需要支援和资源，而我们现在就是朝着这个方向前进。正因如此，我们全省各地卫生官员可以采取因地制宜的措施 (regional approach)，即按照当地情况进行重启。”

目前，有症状人士若想去本省任意一家检测中心接受检测，已不需事先转诊。省府此举，意在帮助更多有症状人士接受常规检测。若想了解更多关于检测中心的信息，可以去访问该网站：

此外，省府将积极主动检测最弱势群体，来发现突发疫情，并积极监控群体内部的病毒传播，而最弱势群体则居住于医院、长期护理院、集体宿舍(group homes)、庇护所、紧急托儿中心、惩教场所以及其他共居场所。省府将检测长期护理院内和老年公寓(retirement homes)内所有住户和前线员工，不论有无症状。不仅如此，省府还将检测与优先检测人群有接触者，例如急救人员、必需劳工(essential workers)，同时因为经济益趋重启，省府亦将检测工作场所。

不仅如此，省府还将与私营企业雇主合作，为各行业和各工作场所制定妥当模式，而省府则期望在检测私营企业工作场所之时，私营企业和政府将共同出力。

同时，省府将在本省偏远郊县和原住民社区内积极主动检测。

此外，省府正在开发敏捷的检测资源(testing resources)，例如移动检测小队(mobile testing teams)，若本省某社区、地区、机构或工作场所有突发疫情，可立即派往本省各社区，来加强现有疫情管控。