To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On January 12, 2021, the Office of the Premier of Ontario announced that in response to modelling data showing the province is in a COVID-19 crisis and its hospitals' Intensive Care Units will be overwhelmed in a few weeks, a second state of emergency was being declared along with a new stay-at-home order. The second state of emergency was declared under s. 7.0.1(1) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMCPA), effective immediately (the first was declared on March 17, 2020, and remained in effect until July 24, 2020). The stay-at-home order will take effect on