If you ask families to provide their consent for you to share their information with Service Canada, that could happen at the health care provider level. Some families may not choose to go to a funeral home, depending on their beliefs and on the stage of their loss. The health care providers often use a bereavement checklist when they're working with families to make sure that everything is offered to the family. For example, if that was another added line to that checklist, for a health care provider to make sure that their paperwork gets sent to Service Canada on behalf of the family, then the family would just have to provide consent and that would cover off the privacy issue, I believe.
On October 30th, 2018. See this statement in context.