Blacklock's Reporter

More than 620,000 people face clawbacks of tax refunds under a federal program to recover Canada Emergency Response Benefit payments from ineligible claimants, records show. The figures were disclosed at the request of New Democrat MP Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood-Transcona, Man.), who has advocated for a CERB amnesty: “I think it is wasteful to chase the poor for money they do not have.”