It's a two-step process. As it stands today, you need the documentation from a province to get a birth certificate to get a social insurance number and that's embedded in what I've described as a two-step process as well. Once a birth has been registered, which does require parents and doctors, that is then signalled to us via a secure channel. On the basis of that comfort from the province, we will issue a social insurance number to that infant.
On June 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.