Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2014-06-12 18:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Joe Daniel (Don Valley East, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Joe Daniel (Don Valley-Est, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3791403\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address Bill <a data-HoCid=\"6253470\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-247/\" title=\"An Act to expand the mandate of Service Canada in respect of the death of a Canadian citizen or Canadian resident\">C-247</a> as proposed by the hon. member for <a data-HoCid=\"170547\" href=\"/politicians/frank-valeriote/\" title=\"Frank Valeriote\">Guelph</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791404\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the bill is adopted, Service Canada would be responsible for notifying all interested departments and programs of the death of an individual once the estate had informed Service Canada. The sensible purpose of this legislation is to increase efficiency and improve service to Canadians, and that intention is laudable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791405\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me explain how the current system works.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791406\" data-originallang=\"en\">When a Canadian or a Canadian resident dies, a death certificate is created and issued by these agencies. Service Canada receives this information through agreements with vital statistics agencies in nine provinces. These agreements are called vital events linkages. This ensures that further payments to the deceased from federal programs are stopped. It is estimated that 96% of the deaths occurring in Canada are currently covered by these agreements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791407\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This system has been operating for eight years. It has a track record of integrity, security, and respect for privacy. Service Canada is constantly working with the provinces and with programs that use the social insurance number, or SIN, as we often call it, to improve the disclosure of vital events information.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791408\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to assure the hon. member that even when deaths occur in jurisdictions that do not have a vital events linkage with Service Canada, they do not go unrecorded. Service Canada receives information on deaths through the administration of the Canada pension plan, the old age security program, the Canada Revenue Agency, R\u00e9gie de l'assurance maladie du Quebec, and from survivors of the deceased.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791409\" data-originallang=\"en\">We also have agreements with a number of departments that are authorized by the Government of Canada to use a social insurance number for identification purposes. Other departments and agencies, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, also have legal authority to validate identity information with the social insurance register.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791410\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have all heard about the plague of identity theft. The SIN may only be collected or used for the purpose expressly permitted by legislation or approved by Treasury Board or the Employment Insurance Commission. The current policy is to limit authorized users of the SIN to key programs only. To protect the privacy of Canadians, not every department or government agency is allowed to have access to the SINs of Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791411\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is also the issue of reliability of information. The process in place does not require a survivor to physically go to Service Canada. It is a good thing not to force somebody to physically visit a Service Canada centre to tell it about the death of a loved one.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791412\" data-originallang=\"en\">Service Canada is also working with Citizenship and Immigration Canada to determine how Passport Canada could benefit from receiving death notifications from the provinces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791413\" data-originallang=\"en\">The processes that are already up and running are not only reliable but are also efficient.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791414\" data-originallang=\"en\">I look forward to listening to the second hour of this debate.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3791403\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour discuter du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"6253470\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-247/\" title=\"An Act to expand the mandate of Service Canada in respect of the death of a Canadian citizen or Canadian resident\">C-247</a>, tel qu'il est propos\u00e9 par le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"170547\" href=\"/politicians/frank-valeriote/\" title=\"Frank Valeriote\">Guelph</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791404\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le projet de loi est adopt\u00e9, Service Canada sera charg\u00e9 d'aviser tous les minist\u00e8res et programmes concern\u00e9s du d\u00e9c\u00e8s de la personne, une fois que la succession l'en aura inform\u00e9. La mesure l\u00e9gislative a pour but d'accro\u00eetre l'efficacit\u00e9 du processus et d'am\u00e9liorer les services offerts aux Canadiens, et cette intention est louable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791405\" data-originallang=\"en\">Permettez-moi d'expliquer comment le syst\u00e8me fonctionne en ce moment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791406\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsqu'un Canadien ou un r\u00e9sident canadien meurt, un certificat de d\u00e9c\u00e8s est cr\u00e9\u00e9 et d\u00e9livr\u00e9 par ces organismes. Service Canada re\u00e7oit ce renseignement en vertu d'ententes n\u00e9goci\u00e9es avec les bureaux de l'\u00e9tat civil de neuf provinces. Ces ententes sont appel\u00e9es des ententes en mati\u00e8re de liens avec les donn\u00e9es de l'\u00e9tat civil. Ce processus garantit que les programmes f\u00e9d\u00e9raux cessent de verser d'autres prestations \u00e0 la personne d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9e. On estime que ces ententes couvrent \u00e0 l'heure actuelle 96 % des d\u00e9c\u00e8s qui surviennent au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791407\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce syst\u00e8me est op\u00e9rationnel depuis huit ans, et il a donn\u00e9 de bons r\u00e9sultats en mati\u00e8re d'int\u00e9grit\u00e9, de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de respect de la protection de la vie priv\u00e9e. Service Canada travaille constamment avec les responsables des provinces et des programmes qui utilisent le num\u00e9ro d'assurance sociale ou le NAS, comme nous l'appelons souvent, afin d'am\u00e9liorer la communication des donn\u00e9es de l'\u00e9tat civil.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791408\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 rassurer le d\u00e9put\u00e9: les d\u00e9c\u00e8s qui surviennent dans les provinces o\u00f9 le directeur de l'\u00e9tat civil ne communique pas syst\u00e9matiquement avec Service Canada sont d\u00e9clar\u00e9s eux aussi. Service Canada re\u00e7oit de l'information sur les d\u00e9c\u00e8s par l'entremise du R\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada, du programme de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la vieillesse, de l'Agence du revenu du Canada, de la R\u00e9gie de l'assurance maladie du Qu\u00e9bec et des survivants des d\u00e9funts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791409\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons \u00e9galement des ententes avec plusieurs minist\u00e8res qui ont l'autorisation du gouvernement du Canada d'utiliser le num\u00e9ro d'assurance sociale des gens \u00e0 des fins d'identification. D'autres minist\u00e8res et organismes, tels que la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, ont \u00e9galement le pouvoir en vertu de la loi de valider des renseignements identificateurs \u00e0 l'aide du registre des num\u00e9ros d'assurance sociale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791410\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons tous entendu parler du fl\u00e9au qu'est le vol d'identit\u00e9. Le num\u00e9ro d'assurance sociale peut seulement \u00eatre obtenu ou utilis\u00e9 aux fins express\u00e9ment autoris\u00e9es aux termes de la loi ou approuv\u00e9es par le Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor ou la Commission de l'assurance-emploi. La politique actuelle vise \u00e0 limiter l'acc\u00e8s aux num\u00e9ros d'assurance sociale \u00e0 certains programmes cl\u00e9s seulement. Pour prot\u00e9ger la vie priv\u00e9e des Canadiens, ce ne sont pas tous les minist\u00e8res ou organismes gouvernementaux qui ont acc\u00e8s au num\u00e9ro d'assurance sociale des Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791411\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a aussi la question de la fiabilit\u00e9 de l'information. Le processus actuel n'oblige pas le survivant \u00e0 se pr\u00e9senter en personne \u00e0 un centre de Service Canada. C'est une bonne chose de ne pas contraindre les gens \u00e0 se rendre sur place pour signaler le d\u00e9c\u00e8s d'un \u00eatre cher.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791412\" data-originallang=\"en\">Service Canada collabore \u00e9galement avec Citoyennet\u00e9 et Immigration Canada pour d\u00e9terminer comment il pourrait \u00eatre avantageux pour Passeport Canada de recevoir les avis de d\u00e9c\u00e8s des provinces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791413\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les processus qui sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 en place sont non seulement fiables, mais aussi efficaces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3791414\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai h\u00e2te d'entendre ce qui se dira au cours de la deuxi\u00e8me heure de ce d\u00e9bat.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/6/12/joe-daniel-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/joe-daniel/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4076/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8420557",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Private Members' Business",
        "fr": "Initiatives Parlementaires"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Service Canada Mandate Expansion Act",
        "fr": "Loi \u00e9largissant le mandat de Service Canada"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/6/12/",
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