Government could have 'picked better words' to discourage CERB cheating: employment minister

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Carla Qualtrough told a Senate committee that threatening jail time is necessary to discourage the likelihood of \u0027situations where people are preying on the vulnerable\u0027

proposes penalties of six months in jail, fines of $5,000, as well as charges of up to three times the value of benefits fraudulently claimed under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.

“The penalties piece would be retroactive to the start of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit,” Qualtrough said.Article content continued “I hear you, Senator. Absolutely, I think in hindsight we could have picked better words,” Qualtrough said. “But from the beginning, we wanted to get money into the hands of people as quickly as possible.”

 

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