Ontario budget to spend billions on emerging from COVID-19 pandemic In late 2020, the province targeted a number of Niagara entities reliant on revenue for one-time grants including Niagara Parks, which will receive $12.81 million from Ontario to ensure financial sustainability as it deals with the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19.Niagara’s job numbers took a hit amid the pandemic in 2020 with the unemployment rate jumping between February and June of last year with 32,000 (15.6 per cent) residents affected by job losses.Last week, the province revealed about 140,000 tourism and hospitality jobs were lost between February 2020 and February 2021.During its budget announcement on Wednesday, the Ford government unveiled a $100-million tourism.