Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
Madam Fraser, I'm still on these social insurance numbers. The last time we investigated this, it seems to me you could actually download a birth certificate off the Internet, fill it in, and get a social insurance number. I take it that's not going on anymore.
Still, given the report of the public accounts committee, I can't imagine why they haven't done anything about building a rapport with the departments of vital statistics to ensure they capture the people who are deceased.
Also, since it's Canada Revenue Agency that's writing all these cheques for old age security and the child tax credit and everything else, when people file a final tax return with the date of death of the deceased, why the Privacy Act would prevent them from saying.... It's the same department issuing the cheques and receiving tax returns. Why can't they say that the database can't collect it or they can't send a cheque to that social insurance number anymore? Is this beyond them? What's the problem that they can't add two and two and get four?