Ontario’s Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture was on the Lorne Brooker Show Monday.
Lisa MacLeod discussed the COVID pandemic, and the one billion dollars from the province to assist during the closures and lockdowns affecting the industries.
“We’ve been hit first, we were hit hardest, and we will take the longest to recover, whether that is our museums and galleries, or our heritage and our arts and our culture, or if it is live music, if it is the tourism sector and of course sports are still largely shuttered.”
“It’s going to require a number of different things, and this is the experience we had with getting the AHL and the NHL back up and running. Looking at how to safely reopen and allow some level of normalcy, with stringent testing protocols, rigorous sanitation protocols and then eventually a large degree of vaccination.”
MacLeod says the sectors she represents account for about $75 billion in Ontario’s economy annually.
You can listen to the full interview below.
