CBC's The Fifth Estate is an investigative team, and the TV series has been running for almost 50 years. They have a lot of experience, as well as the drive to uncover news stories like this.
I don't know about the bank or H&R block (which, that local office, IMO, seems sus), but the CRA and police don't have the funding to do long term individual investigations like this, unfortunately. The article speaks about a CRA team that was investigating fraud over several years, but then was stopped
edit to add: I saw an earlier post linking a Fifth Estate story about how the CRA was going after whistleblowers (CRA employees who talked to CBC about tax refund fraud)... so, maybe the CRA isn't as innocent as I thought
CBC's The Fifth Estate is an investigative team, and the TV series has been running for almost 50 years. They have a lot of experience, as well as the drive to uncover news stories like this.
I don't know about the bank or H&R block (which, that local office, IMO, seems sus), but the CRA and police don't have the funding to do long term individual investigations like this, unfortunately. The article speaks about a CRA team that was investigating fraud over several years, but then was stopped
edit to add: I saw an earlier post linking a Fifth Estate story about how the CRA was going after whistleblowers (CRA employees who talked to CBC about tax refund fraud)... so, maybe the CRA isn't as innocent as I thought