COVID-19 small business grants. “This is a bloody emergency and the government is taking its sweet time in providing support to businesses that have been shuttered for months on end,” said Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
Kelly said “thousands” of businesses are in a position similar to Alex Pilepic, who runs Re-Gear Oshawa, a discount motorcycle apparel retailer. “I qualified for everything,” Pilepic said, adding he applied for the small business grant program twice.But he told Global News he didn’t even hear back from anyone at the Ontario government.
Pilepic said calls to his local MPP and Premier Doug Ford were not productive. He said he knew he qualified for $40,000 in provincial.