Farkel says : What gives you reason to have so much faith in the government, Winston Smith?
Governments around the world have different security rules that they implement concerning their private citizens documents that they retain,
it makes sense as a cautionary procedure and a security procedure,
and may be a matter of privacy reasons to not put forth on the Net someones original birth certificate that they have on file.
I don't think the Canadian government would do such a thing either.
Why this makes anything to investigate and make an issue of is waste of brains, wouldn't make sense to use are good brains on something more purposeful ?