[OT} Bell Wants my SIN!

[Andrew Cowie]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 22:20 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Actually, I believe it's illegal for anyone to require your SIN, unless 
> it's for something that may affect your income tax [etc]

That's correct. Circa 1993 the Canadian Forces were forced to stop using
"Social Insurance Numbers" as soldiers' serial numbers which they had
been doing since the dark ages. So suddenly everyone was given a
"Service Numbers" and had new ID cards, dog tags, etc issued.

AfC
Sydney

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