We have an agreement with the OAS program right now concerning Veterans Affairs. They get the information from the social insurance register and then they are allowed to inform Veterans Affairs Canada of deaths for those individuals who are on OAS.
However, in the rare case where a veteran is not in receipt of OAS, they are not part of that agreement. If, for example, a veteran were to pass away who is too young to be in receipt of OAS, they would not be part of that electronic link. That's why Veterans Affairs is one of the other departments we looked at and have determined has a need to benefit from this type of arrangement.