Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the officials for being here today. Thank you so much for being here. It's really important, the work that you do.
I really appreciate your testimony, Ms. Hogan, as well as the officials who are here from the CRA. We hope that we can get the CLC here as well.
I think it's also important to remind ourselves that we are in a pandemic and that, with much of the emergency supports—all of the emergency supports—that were sent out, there had to be a balance between getting them out the door and making sure that we put enough measures in place to ensure they were getting where they were supposed to go.
Ms. Hogan, in your sixth report, specifically the report on CERB, you say the following: “Accepting risks in order to expedite payments to those in need is consistent with best practices promoted by the International Public Sector Fraud Forum and its Principles of Fraud Control in Emergency Management.”
Would you say that this principle could apply to the emergency supports that we sent out the door very quickly?