Public Accounts committee  In the strategy—and the Department of Natural Resources can talk about it—there is an estimate of the economic impact that hydrogen will have in terms of jobs and GDP.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, that is correct. We don't have that information.

Public Accounts committee  I think the departments would be better positioned to provide that information.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, yes, they explained it to us. We saw the modelling, and we looked at the different hypotheses that were used to achieve these numbers.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we are concerned that Canada will need an incredible amount of energy to provide the amount of hydrogen that is mentioned in the report.

Environment committee  The plan will be to do a follow-up on this audit and to look at those programs.

Public Accounts committee  Given that Mr. Dompierre is having technical issues, I'll answer the question. In the report, we emphasized the attentiveness of many first-level agents. We found that certain practices should be formalized. This is a question for the agency. It concerns staff management.

Public Accounts committee  We don't have any details because this was beyond the scope of the audit, which looked at only the eligibility and accuracy of payments.

Public Accounts committee  The answer is no. The calculation includes only the benefit amount.

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon. The department responsible for this program is Employment and Social Development Canada. However, the Department of Finance is responsible for the Income Tax Act. This probably involved both of these departments.

Public Accounts committee  We haven't seen any analysis that supports the additional payment. However, we haven't requested this analysis. Regardless, it may exist.

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, we did not look specifically at any question related to the viability of the program for the long term or to inflation. I will defer the question to the CRA.

Government Operations committee  Yes. We recommended during the audit to the CRA that they launch targeted audits based on the information they got from business intelligence. Even though they could not have stopped the payments, they could have sent their people after the businesses that were submitting inform

Government Operations committee  The next audit will definitely help clarify the number of applicants who were ineligible. The figures you have are based solely on the controls in place at the time the applications were filed.

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, at the time of the application, the applicants had not filed.