When you wake up on Wednesday, July first life will be as close to normal as it has been since March. There will be no state of emergency, no curfew, and all businesses, bars and nightclubs can open. Basically, you can pretty much go back to life as it was before, with a few notable exceptions.
We'll get to those, but first to the new normal - which is kind of like the old normal. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte explained on Ask The Experts this afternoon:
Hon. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General
"The government has decided that we have reached the point where we no longer have to institute a state of emergency. We no longer need a curfew, so come June 30th we are not under a state of emergency anymore. We are under rules and regulations govern by the quarantine act signed by the minister of health. There will be no more curfew, so we are free to roam as we want to roam in terms of time, but remember I want to make this very clear there will be no more curfew, but under the law even before Covid-19 and even up to now you must be moving with a purpose. So you cannot be wondering about the place aimlessly at 1am in the morning simply because there is no curfew. There is still on the books public morale laws which states that if you are wandering without a purpose at one in the morning you can be arrested and charge for that. We will not be come July 1st a lawless country. That will not happen. Some people believe its wild west come July 1st, but will not be the case. There are certain laws we didn't use to enforce before, but we will enforce them now, because then we are still not out of the woods."
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