Public Accounts committee  As it was explained earlier, the agency does a business intelligence exercise on all of the cases. That's how we do our risk-based approach. We assess every Canadian who received an amount through CERB against the risk factors that we have. As we explained for the CEWS early las

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not sure who the question is for.

Finance committee  What we indicated is that we will begin our post-verification of CERB in January of 2022.

Finance committee  Based on the information that we have, we will establish risk profiles and we will audit the transactions that appear to be more risky in terms of eligibility or fraud.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, it's difficult. On this, we've started to conclude on the number and the relative size of what we would find versus what we've put in place in terms of prevalidation on suspect transactions. In the report of the Auditor General, in paragraph 6.59, we've added addition

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I'd need more information. I don't know about the amnesty the member is referring to here.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, to my knowledge, we never sent a second letter to those individuals. The first letter was to ask the recipients to validate their eligibility, because the agency had information on file showing that they may not be eligible. That letter did not ask them to reimburse at

Finance committee  The agency has continued to develop its verification plan using the available information, but this plan has kept evolving and has always taken into account the context of the pandemic and the possibility of doing checks. As recommended by the Auditor General, we needed to conti

Finance committee  We use all the data available to us to uncover transactions that are suspicious or that may involve people who are not eligible for the programs. We apply methods that allow us to ask people to call us to confirm their identity if we suspect identity theft. We have already used t

Finance committee  At this time, we are continuing our verifications with regard to these programs. We're also continuing to work with small and medium enterprises to complete our verifications, while being as flexible as possible.

Finance committee  If I may, I'd like to answer that question. Last year, when we started the small business verifications, we did show flexibility. We extended the deadlines for companies to respond to us, because we realized we were in a pandemic period and our approach had to be flexible toward

Finance committee  Again, we haven't started the post-verification work on these programs. We don't have an estimate of the fraud in those programs. As we begin that work, we will assess the risks and we will determine how many resources we have to put towards it. We are going to be, as we provided

Finance committee  Once again, we don't have the answer to that question, unfortunately. What I can say is that, once we receive the information, we examine the measures that can be put in place.

Finance committee  Unfortunately, I can't provide a specific answer as far as that report is concerned.

Finance committee  I can tell you that, as Ms. Caron explained earlier, we are in contact—