The National Post has pulled a story that falsely claimed nearly a million “ineligible people” received Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As economists pointed out, the claim was factually incorrect.
The story, which was published under the byline “Postmedia News,” ran under a false headline claiming: “More than 800,000 ineligible people received CERB, at cost of nearly $1.7B, CRA documents reveal.”