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Jack this is ridiculous. There’s no running water toilets on site and not enough soaps to wash hands. All the worker will be touching the same entrance/exit doors on site. And how can you prevent workers to be not working within 1 meter distance if needed. Workers who have shown symptoms on site got sent back home, but the hospitals refuse to check on them because the symptom were considered as “low risk”. Does workers even considered as human to you or just some disposable cheap money making machines?

Jennifer Dyck Shut down the camps now!

Susanna Dokkie-McDonald Now Horgan thinks he’s God! No one should be able to override a public health warning because of money, contracts, time-lines agreements, or whatever! No one knows how this virus is even transmitted or how long it lives on all surfaces, if it is seasonal or a year round threat. No one knows this virus so how is it that there are any exemptions at all?? This is unacceptable at any time. Literally, our futures live or die by temporary politicians and corporate big-wigs who demand exemptions during a world catastrophe! And they wonder why no one takes this deadly threat seriously. Our politicians and corporate head guys are NOT setting a good example. I’m pretty sure that exemptions are attempted murder in Italy and other countries protecting their citizens. Just saying.😪

Randal Hadland This is an anti social move by industry and government. To think that restaurants are being closed, but work camps with restaurants serving 1,500 people are ‘open for business’ is more than a logic fail, it is a sellout of the people of BC.

Mary This is wrong on many levels…. will these folks be paid? Will they have to use their own sick leave? Or will they be required to go on unemployment insurance?

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Chris this is insane. having been worked on several jobsites, both large and small, the portapotties by themselves, pretty demand you shut down. Never mind the fact you don’t have to feel sick, in order to spread this. So there are people working right now, that are spreading this to their coworkers. Especially in the hoists, first thing in the morning. You are facing an outbreak totally irresponsibly.

Brenda Kuecks This is a terrible. For shame!

Dan Riordan Pc response.. should be up to the workers discretion in some cases. Some job sites you could get away with it baring an emergency.. it would be very tough on others. ❤️ going out to all doing tough jobs in a tough situation. Especially Henry.

PD Hard to wash hands when there are no or inadequate sanitation stations. Why are Work BC not visiting sites making sure they are in compliance? The measures stated are not being put in place. This is not happening. Be better!

Hart Schorneck More should be said about touching money & one should regularly wash their cellphones

Jacob This is an absolute joke! The government has 0 regard or care for the health and safety of it’s construction workers. I’m currently on a government contract job and they refuse to shut down or move the deadline so people are working as if nothing is different. No running water for handwash stations (there are none anyways), 1 extra sanitizer dispenser at the front door of a massive multi-storey building, sick employees back after 2 days off but still coughing. Everyone in quarantine and isolation are wasting their time when it’s running rampant on the jobsites and will still be here when they come back out. Shame on the government for doing nothing and letting more people die because of money.

Gustave Recof In Quebec we shut down all industries non-essential!

Val Fishman Wash your hands? Keep 2 meters distance? Have you ever been on a construction site! There is none of that! You got a hard hat! Won’t protect you from covid19!

Bud How can a 1,200 personnel based man-camp be even considered as we learn how to deal with this pandemic? Looks like Horgan’s LNG plans are more important than the health and safety of our workers. Shut these camps down. What the hell is wrong with this government.

Chris This seems a bit disingenuous – certainly essential service jobs like hospitals etc understandably should be exempted, but why construction sites? This undermines both the intent of the restriction and the credibility of government authority. It is, in short, an unconvincing statement.

Geoff You just lost 5 votes, Horgan, you arrogant sycophant.

“The most important part of our work is protecting people. With more and more people working contract-to-contract or self-employed in the gig economy, workers deserve direct support as they self-isolate or care for their families, no matter how they earn a living.” From the NDP website.

Yeah, I suppose you could call it “letting them hang themselves”, if you didn’t count the fact that they’d be laid off if the site re-opened and they didn’t go to work. Perhaps they should contact their union so they can fight back against the “union-party”.

Ryan Are kidding right now!

Yea, keep your distance, never mind the fact we all use the same porta-potties with no hand sanitizer in them because they have all been stolen.

If this isn’t a ticking time bomb for transmission I don’t know what is.