As we indicated in our response, we think it's worth pursuing what we started with the provinces in 2017, which is the work with the CRA to gather the CRA data. We think that has a good cost-benefit analysis, a good return on investment, particularly for people who are in the program for an extended period of time, when looking back at their tax records from prior years would be helpful.
The greatest challenge we have in the program is with the entry requirement, that the individual “in that month” have an income that was, on an annualized basis, below $25,000 a year. As members will know, we do not require Canadians to file taxes every month, so there is no real-time information that Revenue Canada has or we have that shows what the monthly income of each individual is.
When they suffer a sudden event, then, and lose the income, we have to use imperfect methods such as pay stubs and attestations.