Thanks, Chair.
Witnesses, thanks for being with us today.
Welcome back, AG Hogan, Mr. Hayes and Ms. Cabana.
I have a quick question for you, AG Hogan. I'm looking at a press release by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who of course is also the Minister of Finance, and by the Minister of Small Business, Minister Valdez, which says that your report “[doesn't] properly acknowledge that CEBA was designed and delivered during a global pandemic.”
I recall a previous report about COVID benefits and the lacklustre oversight on them. Do you think a pandemic is an excuse not to provide proper oversight or proper guardrails around the spending of taxpayers' dollars as the government is insisting here?