Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I would like to start with the Auditor General.
I would like to read a couple of quotes from the bottom of page 32 and the top of page 33 of the report. It says, “During the audit, we were told that Employment and Social Development Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency had identified cases and referred some of them to law enforcement for investigation”. Then a couple of points later, it says, “As of September 2022, the agency and the department had identified employees that claimed COVID-19 benefits.”
Is that to say that CRA and ESDC employees were referred to law enforcement for a criminal investigation?