ah oui

[Denis Bucher]

At 14.04.01 08'50, you wrote:


>Hello !


> > Do people with a C or B permit automatically get an AHV/AVS number ?
>
>They are obliged to, but they have to make the demand.
>
> > To my knowledge the A permit was cancelled, and if what preceedes is
> > right, only people being able to legally work here would have an
> > AHV/AVS number.
>
>The people working at the UN and the diplomatic missions do not require
>this stuff.  Neither do temporary foreign consultants, I believe.

But in this case, they aren't employees ;-)

> > Of course I can see cases where people wouldn't, still, such as a
> > virtual company with subcompanies in the whole world.
>
>Or simply a multinational company.

I'm not quite sure : A company cannot be 'multinational', there must be a
legal existence in each country where there are employees...

> > But this is becoming off-topic.
>
>Yes, so I will just explain the reason why I am being so argumentitive and
>then stop.  I promise. :-)

;-)))


>For Denis:  In Canada and the USA, it is (theoretically) illegal to use
>Social Insurance Numbers for anything other than tax collection purposes.
>Since citizens are required by law to have such a number, it makes a
>tempting method for database designers to track people across databases.

Hmm ok...

>The wide-spread use of SINs also make life easy for identity thieves.
>Any country concerned about the privacy of its citizens will make the use
>of such numbers illegal except for government purposes.

ok...

Denis


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