| Short Title: | Reopening Ontario Act |
| Long Title: | Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 |
| Citation: | Bill 195. |
| Legislature: | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
| Date Passed: | July 21, 2020 |
| Date Effective: | July 21, 2020 |
| Royal Assent: | July 21, 2020 |
| Bill Citation: | Book: Jones . Sylvia . Bill 195, Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 . Office of the Assembly . Ontario Legislature. |
| 1St Reading: | July 7, 2020 |
| 2Nd Reading: | July 14, 2020-July 21, 2020 |
| 3Rd Reading: | July 21, 2020 |
| Status: | in force |
The Reopening Ontario Act is an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario that grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the ability to continue "orders made under sections 7.0.2 and 7.1 of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act in relation to (the) COVID-19 (pandemic)".[1]
On the day the Bill came for third reading in the Legislature, Belinda Karahalios was removed from the Progressive Conservative caucus by Premier Doug Ford because she voted against it.[2] [3]
The Ontario Nurses Association characterized the day as dark, and ONA President Vicki McKenna said that it "provides extensive powers to override collective agreements and take away the rights of our nurses and health-care professionals who have been working so hard to provide care during the pandemic... this bill enables... employers to deny or cancel vacation time, redeploy them to another unit or... facility at any time, and have far too much authority that is unchecked by the collective agreement."[4]