Mr. Yves Giroux at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 29th, 2020. See this statement in context.

May 29th, 2020 / 11:10 a.m.

Parliamentary Budget Officer, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

We have not revised our estimate recently. We revised our estimate after the emergency wage benefit was announced, but we haven't updated our estimate since.

With the coming into force of the wage benefit, we were expecting a slightly lower take-up of the CERB, which has not happened. The numbers keep rising for the CERB.

We will have to update—

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