If you are convinced a lockdown is needed - apply it to everyone without loop holes. Ford shut small independent businesses during the prime shopping season but left malls and large stores unscathed. Small stores can be just as effective screening their clients. Small businesses can enforce mask only / temperature checks - I have a friend in Woodstock running a small business and he takes COVID seriously.
I watched a reporter ask Ford why he was waiting until Boxing day. Ford said he wanted the stores to have a chance to clear their inventory. WTF ??? Small business owners don't have this chance ! If it takes a 6 week lockdown to get the desired effect - start now and then in 6 weeks - all businesses can open with the same restrictions.
I believe a lockdown may be necessary to curb COVID but it is
only effective if there are no exceptions. Steering customers to the big boys who are party contributors is using the pandemic as an excuse to offer an uncontested monopoly and does not restrict the super spreading activities - it just focuses them to one location.
I was supporting Ford's response at the beginning of this but now I just see another crooked politician out to screw the little guys.

Whenever I start to believe, I end up feeling the same - all politicians suck.