It's slightly different from province to province, but in most cases there's a wallet size and a certificate size, and they're issued the same way that birth certificates and marriage certificates are issued. Of course they're all done in the same departments in most provinces. The funeral director's statement of death has the same information on it that the provincial death certificate has. The only difference is ours is issued by our funeral home and the other one is issued by the province. The provinces have a fee per document and it's at the discretion of the funeral home whether they choose to charge for these documents or include them as part of their service.
Speaking for myself, we include the documents and we'll give the family as many of those as they require. Some people have different-sized estates to settle so they may need more proofs of death in some cases and some may need less, which brings me back to the importance of this bill. If you were to simplify some of those reports, you wouldn't need as many of those proofs of death. Somebody, in a case where they had to deal with the province and get a provincial death certificate, may be incurring hundreds of dollars' worth of costs to notify all of these agencies. With the single point of contact, you'd have one. Where the funeral homes are already accepted, I don't see why that wouldn't be the document required down the road.