I do not want it to be construed that I am blaming the churches, not at all. There are a number of reasons why births weren't registered, some of them administrative, some them through failure of the parents to do so themselves. What we're trying to do here is apply the law as it exists. That's why we are using special circumstances like subsection 5(4) to remedy those situations.
On February 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.