Thank you for the question.
I'm heartbroken when I hear stories like the ones you're sharing, and they're certainly not unique. This is happening across the country.
We put the CERB in place to help people who experienced job loss because of COVID, for COVID reasons, and we've been committed since the beginning, in cases where, in good faith, people accessed the CERB and they weren't eligible to do so, to work with them to repay it, because we had to have some integrity measures. We consciously chose to put them at the back end of the program in order to get money out to people quickly. We are now in that difficult period of running through the eligibility criteria and determining who was actually eligible for this benefit.
I remain as committed as ever to working with citizens in a dignified way on repayment plans. We are not currently contemplating an amnesty but we are looking to find ways to minimize the impact.