Jon de Leon from Toronto shared a clip of the loud (and bright) work that was taking place across from his balcony at about 8:30 pm one night. The video shows him pacing on his deck while the piercing sound of drills and the flashing of sparks fly wildly behind him.

As the work drones on, de Leon yells: “Woo! Look at that look at that! Woah, look at that, it’s construction, construction at 8:30 at night. Woo! They’re just going right at it. There’s nothing I can do.”

Blaming Ontario Premier Doug Ford for the noise, he adds: “Nothing I can do, because… This is a Doug Ford thing. He decided that it’s okay for construction to go on until 10-o-clock at night, and as early as 6-o-clock in the morning. That’s just the way it is. I called 311, I called my city councillor. There’s nothing they can do. Nothing. Absolutely nothing I can do. Woo!”

Throughout the pandemic, the provincial government has adjusted hours of construction for essential projects, including an early-April extension that permitted construction to run for 24 hours a day. In May, that “essential-project-only” requirement was lifted, broadening the scope of what types of construction projects could be worked on.