The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) did not do cursory checks on claims requesting wage subsidies under a pandemic relief program using the information it already had before paying out $100.6 billion to businesses, including those in tax default, according to Auditor General Karen Hogan.
“An example we saw was in the Emergency Wage Subsidy program,” Hogan testified before the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance on Sept. 4, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. “The Canada Revenue Agency had information where they could have vetted the eligibility of businesses.”
