Essential to know

Last update: October 8th, 2020

The current context leads to a very particular month of October because Montreal is declared as a red zone. In order to better follow the economic actuality and the measures of the government's different levels, we have collected here some links that might interest you.

FEDERAL ECONOMIC MEASURES

Latest news: Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan

Existing news:

• New Canadian Recovery Benefit (CRB)
• Sickness benefits
• Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
• Extending the Work-Sharing program
• Insured Mortgage Purchase Program
• Bank of Canada's actions
• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions actions

PROVINCIAL ECONOMIC MEASURES

Latest News: Financial assistance (COVID-19)

Specifically for SMEs: Emergency Assistance for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (COVID-19)

Existing news:

• New assistance for businesses in maximum alert regions (in French only)
• Temporary action program for businesses
• Leave of repayment of six months (minimum) for loans from local investment funds (in French only)
• An envelope of $4 billion to support Québec companies temporarily impacted by COVID-19
• Relief measures for individuals and businesses
• Assistance to Quebec's touristic businesses in their adaptation to the sanitary security measures (COVID-19) (in French only)

MUNICIPAL ECONOMIC MEASURES

Latest News: COVID-19: Information and resources

Existing news:

• Support measures for Montréal businesses
• Aide d’urgence aux petites et moyennes entreprises
• Temporary Support for commercial recovery in Ville-Marie (in French only)
• Support for merchants
• Information and Tools for Merchants - PME MTL
• Digitization for merchants
• Rent exemption for coffee-terraces in public domain (in French only)
• Free support to help 450 small Montréal businesses recover

ESSENTIAL SANITARY MEASURES

Existing news:

• Workplace Sanitary Standards Guide for Retail Businesses
• Workplace Sanitary Standards
• COVID-19 CNESST Kits (in French only)
• COVID-19: Tools and measures to adapt your business to health standards
• Technical support for anti-COVID adaptation of small businesses and organizations (in French only)
• Association de Restauration du Québec: Sanitary measures Webinar (in French only)

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