Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I first want to tell all the officials from the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency that all the work they did in record time deserves to be recognized. We're talking about a period that has been very difficult.
Today the committee must analyze the Auditor General's report on the initial steps taken to roll out the wage subsidy program on an urgent basis. We must also assess the departments' ability to react quickly in times of crisis. Another study recently revealed to us that certain departments were simply not ready, a fact that somewhat discouraged the Auditor General, particularly in the case of the Public Health Agency of Canada. What we would like to determine here is whether the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency were sufficiently prepared to deal with that crisis.
I would like to introduce a motion to enable the committee to determine what steps the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency took and whether they were prepared to respond to the crisis. With your permission, I will read the motion:
The committee request that the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency provide the committee with all studies, data and analysis used for the implementation of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy.