[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The curfew, which is in effect until at least Feb.
8, stipulates Quebecers must be home from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every night, with few exceptions. The province implemented it as part of lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.The restriction has been hotly contested, however.Community workers and politicians at all levels of government had called on Premier François Legault to exempt the homeless from the curfew after a man was found dead this month in a portable toilet not far from a Montreal homeless shelter he frequented.Legault has said police show good judgment when dealing with the homeless.