I can understand the frustration. As I understand it, DND births had to be registered both with the department—what you're talking about, with a Registration of Birth Abroad—and they also had to be registered with the Registrar of Canadian Citizenship.
The rules of the time required that a particular form be used in a particular manner. DND had the habit of both systematically registering those births for their own DND purposes, and systematically registering them with the Registrar of Canadian Citizenship. Insofar as we can make out, there are relatively few cases where DND didn't do both, but it was a requirement of the rules of the time. It could not just be the DND form. There was a specific form required by what was then the Department of Secretary of State to register the births abroad.
As the minister said, it's one of the situations in which the rules of the time required that particular form to be filled out in a particular way. Again as the minister said, we've only found about twenty cases so far in which there have been difficulties, and I have no doubt we'll work through them.