I'd like to begin by saying that I found the minister's comments disappointing. I was asked to do the benefits audit under the provisions of an act passed by the Senate and the House of Commons. So all of Parliament asked me to do the audit that we're discussing today.
To answer your question, I will say that it's due to the decision to limit the information required of businesses and individuals when they were applying for benefits, as well as a lack of real-time information. For these reasons, we made two recommendations that the Government of Canada consider a system for obtaining real-time payroll and revenue information from businesses.
As you said, other countries use that system, and that's why they have a little more information about how much has been paid out to ineligible recipients.