Translation of "government-based social insurance " (English → French) :

‘Voluntary health insurance schemes’ means schemes based upon the purchase of a health insurance policy, which is not made compulsory by government and where insurance premiums may be directly or indirectly subsidised by the government.

Mr. Speaker, I can just name a few: a driver's licence; health card; passport; certificate of citizenship; birth certificate; Indian status card; social insurance number; old age security card; student ID card; provincial or territorial identification card; liquor identification card; medical health care clinic card; credit or debit card; employee card; public transportation card; library card; Canadian Forces ID card; Veterans Affairs Canada health card; Canadian Blood Services card; Canadian National Institute for the Blind ID card; a firearms possession and acquisition licence; a fishing, trap ...[+++]ping or hunting licence; an outdoors or wildlife card; a hospital bracelet worn by residents of long-term care facilities; a parolee identification card; a television service bill, or a utility bill, including for public utilities commissions, like hydro, gas, and water; bank cards; vehicle ownership cards; correspondence from a school, college, or university; a statement of government benefits like employment insurance or social insurance; an attestation of residence issued by a first nations authority; a government cheque or cheque stub; a pension plan statement of benefits; a residential lease, mortgage statement, income or property assessment, property insurance; or a letter from a public curator.

For the government, the social insurance number has essentially always been treated as a file identifier for government programs.

But some candidates refuse to sign it and we cannot hire them because we cannot communicate to the government their social insurance number or other similar information.

If the payouts are $70 billion, what that tells me is that if you match that with approximately 5% of your social insurance numbers that may in fact be fraudulent based on those numbers, should even 10% of these fraudulent inactive social insurance numbers be accessing government programs, that adds up to a cost to the treasury of about $300 million.

Although many public pension schemes have dedicated sources of revenue in the form of social insurance contributions, general government contributions to all social protection schemes [5] generally represent nearly ten per cent of GDP for the EU as a whole.