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Human Resources committee As we get more data, it would surely be a good study to look at using the income survey, for example.
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee Yes, Mr. Chair, as the minister mentioned before, there's a clawback, a tax recovery—
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee If they're included in our database and still receive OAS so that—
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee First, the benefit is going to provide more to those who are low income, who are receiving the GIS, as you know.
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee I did respond to that before. I will continue my answer if you let me do that. I would also say that, as the minister mentioned, the GST credit top-up that was provided to all Canadians from low- and modest-income benefited seniors in April. Only those of low and modest income b
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee We are not.
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee Guidance was provided to Service Canada. What we did with the CERB was to change our way to do integrity, to do more at the back end and less at the front end, because we had a huge volume to process. I would say, though, that if you read that memo, there's mention of three ele
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee It was. That was the priority and we had to adapt the integrity model.
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee The impact would have been huge. If we had kept with the same approach as for EI, as you provided as an example, it would have been impossible to process all these claims with the speed we did. People would not have received their benefits and they would still be without them as
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee Mr. Chair, I will pick up that question and pass it to my collective group afterwards. At their level, we effectively closed these centres, and we have worked hard to improve our phone and online connections. People can send emails and get an answer within a standard amount of ti
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee I will ask my colleague Cliff Groen to answer that question.
May 15th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee Yes, they will.
April 24th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee I'm not in a position to answer your question on the immigration process because it's not in my zone of responsibility or the department's. I think you have to redirect this question to the immigration department.
April 24th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee You're right that international students in Canada are eligible for the CERB and that they will not be eligible, as of now, based on the design, for the Canada emergency student benefit. I have to say that there are other differences between the two benefits. For example, Canadia
April 24th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux
Human Resources committee I'm not sure I understood the question correctly. I just heard “nationally”. Could you repeat the question, please?
April 24th, 2020Committee meeting
Benoît Robidoux