No, they did have some automated prepayment controls up front. Both the wage subsidy and the Canada emergency response benefit had a few up front, but not the typical stronger due diligence they would have done normally when handing out subsidy payments. It means there is the potential that some payments were made in error or to ineligible applicants, so those payments will have to be identified and then recovered.
On April 13th, 2021. See this statement in context.