Yes, but we just heard that the agency was using a standardized process, when the situation is anything but standard. COVID‑19 benefits were overpaid. The CRA should establish a non-standard verification process and do far more investigating to recover the money. In many instances, we know that there was fraud. People who defrauded the government.
Why doesn't the Department of Finance make more of an effort on that side of things rather than simply refuse to postpone the reimbursement of loans under the Emergency Account? What would that accomplish apart from keeping the subsidies at the rate of 5%?
Frankly, it looks as if a straightforward economic analysis, a cost-benefit analysis of aid programs during the pandemic, was not carried out.