COVID-19 restrictions during the holiday shopping season.The city said its staff and Ottawa Public Health will work with the province this week on an “education and enforcement initiative” to ensure businesses are complying with the province’s Reopening Ontario Act and Section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act.In other words, the province wants to see how well local businesses are complying with Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions framework, which currently sees Ottawa in the orange zone.Among the restrictions on Ottawa retailers aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus are a limit on the number of people who can gather inside a shop and a requirement to manage distance between patrons inside and in lineups out.