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23 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,O ctober 14,2021 insidehalton.com Virtual Meetings Over The Phone Here to Help From A Legal Point ofView Have you reviewed your auto insurance policy? There are important optional benefits that you may be missing out on. Many people are unaware that you can purchase optional coverage which entitles you to higher limits for accident benefits. Specifically, every auto insurer must offer optional enhanced coverage in the following categories: • Income replacement benefits; • Caregiver, housekeeping and home maintenance benefits; • Medical, rehabilitation and attendant care benefits; • Death and funeral benefits; • Dependant care benefits; and • Indexation benefits. If you're seriously injured in car accident, the costs of treatment and rehabilitation services needed to recover stack up quickly. As such, the appeal of this enhanced coverage becomes obvious given the rising costs of living and costs of care. These optional benefits offer a much larger pool of insurance money that you can access. For instance, the statutory maximum you can receive for standard income replacement benefits is currently $400 per week. If you purchase optional income replacement benefits, however, you can receive an increased maximum weekly amount of $600, $800 or $1,000 per week based on the option you select. There are also various optional benefits for medical, rehabilitation and attendant care which dramatically increase the standard policy limits. You should immediately review your auto policy and consider whether this enhanced coverage would be right for you. In the unfortunate event of a motor vehicle accident, don't be caught without adequate coverage. − ADVERTORIAL − Taran Hoogsteen Personal Injury Lawyer thoogsteen@rossmcbride.com 905.526.9800 www.rossmcbride.com Following days of dem- onstrations outside Onta- rio hospitals, the provin- cial Liberals are calling on Premier Doug Ford to take tougher action on pandem- ic protesters. The party re- leased a "plan to mandate safety" on Sept. 14 and ad- dressed a letter to Ford the next day urging him to adopt the measures laid out in the plan and meet with Ontario's chiefs of po- lice and opposition leaders to discuss other potential solutions to the problem of conspiracy theory and an- ti-vaccine protest groups. "When angry mobs as- semble outside our hospi- tals, it's time to say enough. Vulnerable cancer patients are being exposed to the an- gry unvaccinated, our ex- hausted front-line health- care heroes are being in- timidated, and acts of ag- gression are occurring at an increasingly alarming rate across the province," reads the letter signed by Ontario Liberal Party lead- er Steven Del Duca. "The vaccinated majori- ty are rightly discouraged and dismayed by these de- velopments as case num- bers continue to climb, and need to see strong leader- ship to combat radicaliza- tion." The province has not taken any formal steps to address protests outside health-care facilities, but Deputy Premier Christine Elliott condemned the ac- tions of demonstrators as "unfortunate" during an update on the province's last mile vaccination strat- egy on Sept. 14. "This is very demoraliz- ing to our front-line health- care workers who have been working flat out to save people's lives for the last 18 months," Elliott said. "It's just very unfortu- nate that this is happening with the protesters, and we would ask them to please think about the great work our front-line health-care workers are doing and please stop these protests." The plan calls on the province to adopt the fol- lowing measures: PROMOTING VACCINE AC- CEPTANCE AND COMBAT- ING MISINFORMATION The plan calls on Ford to convene a meeting on the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to discuss how to "protect communi- ties from anti-vax abuse, harassment, violence and blocked access to services" while ensuring the right to public assembly is also pro- tected. It also asks for the establishment of tempo- rary exclusion zones around hospital entrances to help patients and staff move more freely in and out of hospitals. It calls for the province to work with the federal government to counter misinformation and disin- formation regarding vac- cines and the pandemic, in- vest in public health educa- tion and outreach for com- munities where vaccine confidence is low, and add requirements for the use of COVID-19 vaccine certifi- cates as a regulation under the Emergency Act. STRENGTHENING VACCINE MANDATES The plan challenges Ford to remove "testing loopholes" for those with- out medical or Ontario Hu- man Rights Code exemp- tions in vaccine mandates for health care and educa- tion workers; mandate vac- cines on all provincially regulated trains and buses, for both passengers and op- erators; mandate vaccines for all employees of work- places where customers are required to be vaccinat- ed; and provide workers with 10 provincially funded paid sick days. It also calls on Ford to mandate vaccines for stu- dents born in 2009 or earli- er and establish public health unit vaccine pro- grams in every school. PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PANDEMIC The plan asks Ford to make pandemic recovery investments, including an increase in funding to col- leges and universities to expand health-care pro- grams, increased access to at-home testing for all On- tarians and increased sup- port for COVID-19 bur- dened hospitals. It also calls for a com- prehensive plan for the mass immunization of chil- dren born after 2009 and a revised timeline for in- creased capacities under the new vaccine certificate guideline, as well as addi- tional financial support for small businesses. NEWS ONTARIO LIBERALS DEMAND PCS ACT ON HOSPITAL PROTESTS MEGAN DELAIRE mdelaire@toronto.com Approximately 100 anti-vaccine protesters recently gathered in front of Toronto General Hospital, as others had done at other hospitals across Ontario and at Queen's Park. Richard Lautens photo