{"id":116217,"date":"2020-11-23T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/its-disgusting-cfib-ceo-slams-toronto-peel-lockdowns-as-unfair-for-small-businesses"},"modified":"2020-11-23T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:22:16","slug":"its-disgusting-cfib-ceo-slams-toronto-peel-lockdowns-as-unfair-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/its-disgusting-cfib-ceo-slams-toronto-peel-lockdowns-as-unfair-for-small-businesses","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s disgusting\u2019: CFIB CEO slams Toronto, Peel lockdowns as unfair for small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-disgusting-cfib-ceo-slams-toronto-peel-lockdowns-as-unfair-for-small-businesses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) blasted new lockdown measures ordered by Ontario in Toronto and Peel Region, saying it\u2019s unfair that smaller businesses must limit sales to delivery and curbside pickup while big box retailers remain open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely shocked that the Ford government would go down this road,\u201d Dan Kelly said in an interview on Friday. \u201cTo allow big box stores and even department stores like The Bay to remain open while shutting down every single little independent retailer in Toronto and Peel \u2013 I can\u2019t imagine on what planet that\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that the two hot spots will be entering lockdown, effective Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) blasted new lockdown measures ordered by Ontario in Toronto and Peel Region, saying it\u2019s unfair that smaller businesses must limit sales to delivery and curbside pickup while big box retailers remain open to the public. \u201cI\u2019m absolutely shocked that the Ford government would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}