Again, we did note some inconsistencies in how this was done across the department. For example, when you're looking at program officers who are probably just trying to help the recipients by pre-populating some forms, it's not really a good practice for departmental people to pre-populate forms for the recipients to submit their final funding. I think it's better to have an arm's-length approach so that the recipients are filling out their work and the departmental program managers do their job in terms of validating and monitoring.
On October 29th, 2024. See this statement in context.