OT: Canadian Tax Database

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175

"For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number
was instead filled in with a birth date."

Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in
business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a wealthy
democratic country didn't use data types.

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd