Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, on the first point, of the 2.1 million that were dormant as of June 2006, none of those would have been 900-series SINs, by the nature of them. All of those now have expiry dates on them, so they simply wouldn't be part of the dormant population. As far as working wit

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, clearly we operate within the framework of laws passed by Parliament and take them as a given. There are strict controls over the sharing of information, and privacy is one of the paramount concerns. The challenge for us as public servants is to try to achieve program

Human Resources committee  We expect to be able to report our goals and our status in terms of those goals this fall.

Human Resources committee  We, too, worry that they are underrepresented. The SIN is a vital document. I wouldn't say that it is as a piece of identification, but it is, as we all know, difficult to function in Canadian society if you don't have one. So we do worry that there are segments of the population

Human Resources committee  I think for us, because we are contemplating the SIN at landing service in major airports, we're concerned enough that there is an underrepresented group in the population, and we want to make sure they have a social insurance number as soon as they arrive in Canada. Without havi

Human Resources committee  I'll ask my colleague to respond.

Human Resources committee  It would be all the information collected during the SIN application process, so it's the information provided by the applicant to us. Onno, you may be more familiar with the actual fields, beyond the obvious ones.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I would love to be able to say that we'll have the rest signed up in the next 12 months, but it is a matter of federal-provincial negotiations. It's incumbent on Service Canada and HRSDC to sell the merits of the vital events agreements to the provincial governments th

Human Resources committee  Not knowing at this point where the problems lie exactly, we know overall that the integrity is quite high, because it doesn't tend to come up as an issue at all in program administration. But that doesn't mean that the SIR is fully accurate, by any means, and I don't mean to imp

Human Resources committee  Fortunately, and maybe unfortunately, these programs identified by the Auditor General are within HRSDC, which is what Service Canada is part of. They're our departmental colleagues, and we're working with them now to look at the results of the audit and to try to understand what

Human Resources committee  I'll ask my colleagues from Treasury Board Secretariat to help me out on this answer, but as you know, the SIN is not a piece of identification in that sense, so it need not have biometrics or any other special measure on it.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I'll repeat part of the answer I gave to one of the other members. We are right in the midst of the study that is going to identify what fields in the social insurance register are the key ones for the purposes of program administration and what level of error is signi

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I don't follow the question.

Human Resources committee  Yes, we'll have the goals and our current performance in relation to those goals. Where we have not met our own goals we'll need to talk about what corrective measures we would take to close that gap to improve the integrity of the SIR, and some timetable for doing that. I would

Human Resources committee  I'll ask Mr. Kremers to comment on this. My guess would be it's unusual, except in the case of all the SINs we're now providing to children, who may receive them at five years of age. Parents buy the education grant for some time, discontinue it; five, six years pass, and they