Vital Statistics in Canada

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Vital Statistics in Canada

• Certificate Renewal

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Background

• 10 Provinces and 3 Territories issue Vital Event
  Certificates in Canada
• Jurisdictions collaborate on certificate design
  and purchasing of the certificate stock
• Each jurisdiction issues Birth, Marriage, Change
  of Name and Death Certificates
• All jurisdictions, with the exception of one,
  issue certified copies of Certificates
• Vital Event Certificates are used to obtain
  identity documents Passports, Driver Licenses,
  Health Cards, Social Security Cards
• Certificates are not used as ID documents

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Historical Overview

• -1965 sheet size, security printed, paper
  certificates, personal data handwritten
• 1965 1983 wallet size, security printed and
  laminated certificates, personal data applied
  with a typewriter
• 1983 today wallet size, NON laminated,
  security printed, personal data applied using
  impact or laser printers. Optionally, framing
  size certificates are available
• Current format and main security features - over
  30 years old

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Current Certificate Security

• Substrate
• Paper
• Security paper 96 gsm
• 33 cotton, 57 wood pulp
• Watermark
• Fibers visible and invisible
• Chemical sensitive.

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Certificates Security

• Security Printing Features - front

INTAGLIO BORDER
INTAGLIO LATENT IMAGE (CANADA)
INTAGLIO MICROLETTERING
TRANSIENT IMAGE (CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH)
FORDRENIE WATERMARK
THERMOCROMIC INK BACKGROUND
INVISIBLE FIBERS FLUORESCES ORANGE
RED FIBERS EMBEDDED IN PAPER
FINE LINE LITHO LINE DEFLECTION BACKGROUND
COAT OF ARMS IN LITHO BACKGROUND
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Certificates Security

• Security Printing Features - back

RED FIBERS EMBEDDED IN PAPER
NUMBER FLUORESCES ORANGE
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Current certificate deficiencies

• Outdated design
• Limited number of Security Features
• Security Features that had been in the public
  domain for an extensive period of time
• Distributed Issuance
• Laser Printed personal data by some provinces -
  laser toner is easy to remove, data easy to alter
• Size facilitates carrying in wallets loss of
  certificates

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Current certificate deficiencies

• Deficiencies expose certificates to
• Counterfeiting
• Alteration of data
• Theft of genuine certificates
• Impostors using genuine certificates.

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New Generation VS certificates

• New Design driven by requirement for
• Improved security
• Improved durability and resistance to wear and
  tear
• Improved document image
• Non-wallet format
• Improved ink/toner stability/adhesion
• Ease of personalization with existing /
  accessible equipment
• Cost effectiveness.

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New Generation VS certificates

• Requirements presented to the supplier of the
  current certificate
• Canadian Bank Note Company, Ltd (CBN)
• Design of the New Generation document initiated
  with the assessments of the threats and risks
• Based on this assessment, CBN recommended
  developed a new prototype design proposing
  improvements in a number of areas
• New prototype design reviewed by Canadian
  National Police Force and Intelligence community
  for security and integrity.

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New Generation VS certificates

• Areas of improvement
• Substrate
• Certificate Format
• Layered Security Features
• Certificate Personalization
• Machine Readability.

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New Generation VS certificates
Substrate - Polymer

• Special formulation of polymer designed for high
  security certificates and targeted at security
  documents market
• Currently used for banknotes by 18 countries
• Allows for integration of unique, difficult to
  replicate security features
• Improved durability - lasts 4 times longer
  than paper
• Formulated for laser printers and improved toner
  adhesion
• Environmentally friendly material.

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New Generation VS certificates

• Booklet Format
• Facilitate machine readability with commonly
  available security documents readers (passports,
  cards)
• Security printing on both sides
• Folding to minimize data wear and tear
• Format / size laser printable
• Larger format to discourage carrying the
  certificate in wallets

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New Generation VS certificates

• Layered Security Features

• Multi-color intaglio
• OVD
• Prismatic Printing
• Complex clear window
• Perfect see-through feature
• Latent image
• Transient image
• Wacker ink feature

• Multi-color UV
• Variable sized UV
• Micro lettering
• Multiplex/Docuplex
• Anti-copy line-work
• VOID feature
• 2D Bar-code
• Chemical sensitive inks

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New Generation VS certificates

• Personalization
• Off-the-shelf laser printers
• Stack feed
• Toner removal tests show superior toner adhesion
• Possibility for development of specialty /
  security toners

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New Generation VS certificates

• Machine Readability
• 2D barcode containing
• Encoded text
• Optional encryption (complete or partial)
• Standardized
• Type
• Position on the document
• Dimensions
• Encryption algorithm.