COVID-19 recovery plan.The area has spent about half of 2021 in either the red alert level, or most recently, under lockdown restrictions.With the move to orange taking effect overnight Tuesday, some people can now reunite, and many businesses can reopen, after the past month of tight restrictions.“A lot of happy faces, I’ve got to say,” Acting Mayor Eric Marquis says. “A lot of smiles.
People are happy to see each other. Everybody’s back to work in their workplace.”“It’s pretty awesome to be finally moving ahead,” he says.Céline Parent, the co-owner of Moonshin’hers gastro pub, says they were expecting two weeks of the red phase prior to the jump to the less-restrictive orange level.