Thank you, Chair.
Welcome, Minister. It's nice to meet you. Thank you for coming.
Just before I get into questions, I'd like to perhaps correct, or at least point out, a contradiction from my friend Mr. Baker. On the one hand, we're to believe that Conservatives agreed to support all these measures at one point and in fact voted for all of them, and on the other, we're to believe that we would have done nothing to support workers. In fact, if you look at our track record, in the great recession we ran the largest budget deficit the country had ever seen and then worked incredibly hard to bring the country's finances back to balance within five years.
In that sense, Minister, you mentioned people breaking the law and that they should be pursued. Does it concern you that there seems to have not really been a lot of verification activities as to whether people had broken the law? We had testimony last week that indicated there haven't been any post-payment verification audits on CERB, and very few on the wage subsidy. We're also not asking for any kinds of medical certificates or doctor's notes for sickness benefits.
As a minister in this government, are you concerned that we're not actually trying to identify where there have been challenges or incorrect payments made?