Mr. Speaker, to access the Canada emergency response benefit, or CERB, people must have earned $5,000 the previous year. However, according to information obtained last week, the government let 800,000 people receive the CERB without even having filed their income tax return. There was therefore no confirmation that they were eligible for this money. Those benefits were paid for by hard-working taxpayers.
How did the government confirm the eligibility of people who had not filed a tax return?