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From: gtward@watvlsi.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: SIN's (was borrowed records)
Message-ID: <3220@watvlsi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 13:43:08 EST
Article-I.D.: watvlsi.3220
Posted: Tue Nov 25 13:43:08 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 04:13:38 EST
References: <623@water.UUCP> <192@spectrix.UUCP> <497@ubc-cs.UUCP> <12211@watnot.UUCP> <504@ubc-cs.UUCP> <637@water.UUCP>
Reply-To: gtward@watvlsi.UUCP (Greg Ward)
Distribution: can
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <637@water.UUCP> jmlang@water.UUCP (Jerome M Lang) writes:
>In article <504@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis) writes:
>>... The mapping from SIN to identity is supposed to be greatly
>>controlled (and that's why the theft of Revenue Canada records is so
>>serious).
>
>I am not sure of the validity of the next sentence but I heard that
>it was true. There are more SIN in use than there are people in the country.
>
>Any comment.
>

This is not surprising at all. When you die, your SIN lives on. The
government continues to use it. For example, the Orphan's Benefit
that I receive is `charged to' my mother's SIN, and she died over 12
years ago.

	Greg Ward