With 51 days elapsed under the province's state of emergency to date and another 13 stretching out before us, we'll get our first hard look at the economic shadow of COVID-19 tomorrow when StatsCan releases its April Labour Force Survey. (March's report was anchored in the period of March 15-21, which straddled the closure of non-essential businesses). Concern about the report's impact has presumably been a key driving force behind the past week's announcements around reopening, as a ray of hope to the public and a preemptive calmative for stock markets.
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