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Finance committee I'm happy to respond from our perspective. I want to clarify that there are certainly upfront checks that are done. For example, we check that the social insurance number is valid, that the person is of legitimate age to be able to receive this and that there's no double-dipping
May 14th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Mr. Chair, it seems that Mr. Gallivan has been disconnected. Let me provide assurances that these measures would be for absolutely egregious cases, as Mr. Gallivan pointed out, organized crime. We have absolutely no interest in those who have made mistakes or have interpreted
June 11th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Sure, I'd be happy to do that. As Janique said, there's a range of programs. The community volunteer income tax program helps low-income Canadians. That program typically helps 800,000 to 900,000 low-income Canadians a year, so that's a very important program. We also do a lot
June 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee It's impossible to quantify how many people would qualify for this relief at this point, because we don't know at this point who wouldn't have qualified without this relief provision. That's because we'd need their 2019 tax return and their 2020 tax return. We'd need to see the i
February 18th, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee Yes, certainly. I want to just clarify that in terms of getting incomplete information or not correct information, that certainly was very early in the pandemic. We were rolling out these programs very quickly. The program began on April 6, and it took us around three weeks to cl
February 18th, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Finance committee It's not quite as clear as that. It's not that we said they didn't qualify; it was that they may not qualify. Remember, at the time the letters were sent out, all we had was the 2019 tax return. They still may have qualified. If you recall how it works, you can meet that $5,000
February 18th, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee Thank you very much and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee today as you continue your review of the employment insurance program. With me is my colleague, Annette Butikofer, who's assistant commissioner and chief information of
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee I really can't comment on that. We weren't involved in that decision, in terms of who would undertake what program. We were approached to do the wage subsidy. That was a large undertaking with respect to delivering something for businesses. I'm speculating here entirely, but
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee It's not a problem.
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee There's nothing I can think of, in the context of the question you're asking.
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee As I said, it would have been a challenge to launch both the wage subsidy and the rent subsidy at the same time. It was a huge undertaking to do the wage subsidy. In fact, the rent subsidy was very much based on the architecture of the wage subsidy, so it was replicating somethin
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee I can't speculate on that.
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee I'd like to get clarification on the question. Would you like to know how the volumes have declined over time?
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee It's difficult to say. It changes. When we launched the CERB, we declined a very small number of the applications. When the program was up and running, there weren't as many upfront validations and we didn't have 2019 income at that time. Then we moved to the CRB and the new mea
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten
Human Resources committee I would say that is a rare occurrence relative to the total number of people applying. Generally speaking, if you've applied for EI and you're still EI eligible, the legislation, in fact, says you're not eligible for the CRB. You need to first go to EI. In the vast majority of c
February 23rd, 2021Committee meeting
Frank Vermaeten