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Q-720
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to the commitment in budget 2025 to automate federal benefits: (a) broken down by department and agency, how many employees or full-time equivalents are projected to work on this program in (i) fiscal year 2025-26, (ii) fiscal year 2026-27, (iii) fiscal year 2027-28; (b) what resources are projected to develop new technology solutions, including procurements of new databases or systems; (c) what is the projected yearly expenditure for benefits that will be claimed under this automatic program; (d) what are the eligibility criteria for this program; (e) how many of the 5.5 million targeted individuals are considered non-filers (for example, no previous interaction with the Canada Revenue Agency); (f) what safeguards are in place to ensure that automated benefits are not received by ineligible persons (for example, incarcerated, deceased, out of country, self-employed, participating in the underground economy); and (g) what planning has been undertaken, and what timeline is in place, to expand this project to all tax filers? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-462
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
With regard to the Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions): (a) does the secretary of State have their own department and departmental budget, and, if so, what is the name of the department and the budget; (b) does the government provide the secretary of State with their own car and driver; (c) does any deputy minister report to the secretary of State, and, if so, which one; (d) what is the highest-ranking public official who reports to the secretary of State; and (e) since he was sworn in, on how many days has the secretary of State attended a Cabinet meeting? |
Answered |
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 |
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Q-304
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Monday, September 15, 2025 |
With regard to the comments on September 8, 2025, by the Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions) that "We hit rock bottom. It can't get much worse than it is now.": which ministers and government officials are responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency "hitting rock bottom" in 2025, and what disciplinary action, if any, has each faced for allowing this to happen? |
Answered |
Friday, October 31, 2025 |
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Q-238
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
With regard to the government's electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility agreement with Volkswagen: (a) how much funding has been distributed to Volkswagen to date in relation to the agreement; (b) what were the dates and amounts of each funding instance; (c) what is the schedule for future funding under the agreement; (d) how have the developments related to the $370 billion funding commitment in the United States as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act impacted this agreement, and what are the details of the specific changes that the government has made to this agreement following the developments associated with the Inflation Reduction Act; and (e) is the Parliamentary Budget Officer's 2023 report stating that the deal will cost the government $16.3 billion consistent with current governmental financial projections associated with this deal, and, if not, what numbers are different and how does the government explain the difference? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
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Q-115
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency and the tax gap: (a) why has the Agency not released any tax gap data more recently than 2018; (b) what is the Agency’s current estimate of the federal tax gap, for each of the last five years; (c) what are the top three contributing categories to that gap in each of those years; (d) what is the government’s position on requiring the Agency to report the federal tax gap on a regular and ongoing basis; (e) what specific performance metrics does the Agency currently use to evaluate the effectiveness of its modernization initiatives and fraud detection strategies; (f) how are these metrics in (e) reported to Parliament and made accessible to the public; (g) what percentage of the total fraud cases detected in each of the last five years were identified through manual review versus digital tools; and (h) does the Agency have any plans to reduce the number of manual reviews and increase the number of files reviewed by automated or artificial intelligence based screenings, and, if so, what are the details of such plans? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
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Q-114
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency’s Quantum 2.0 project: (a) what is the current total cost of the project, to date, overall and broken down by type of cost; (b) what is the current estimate of the final cost of the project; (c) what was the original completion date; (d) what is the current expected completion date; (e) what are the primary reasons for the delay and any cost overruns; and (f) have any independent third-party review or audits of the project been conducted, and, if so, what are details of each, including their findings? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
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Q-113
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
With regard to tax fraud and bogus refund schemes identified by the Canada Revenue Agency for each of the last five years: (a) what is the total estimated amount lost to such schemes, broken down by year, and by type of scheme; (b) how many people have been criminally charged in relation to such a scheme conducted in the last five years; and (c) broken down by type of scheme, what specific policy or technological changes have been implemented to stop the fraud or scheme from occurring in the future? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
