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The province is introducing new birth certificates made with a polymer material and security features that officials say will make them more durable and harder to counterfeit.     Premier Kathleen Wynne along with the minister responsible for birth certificates David Orazietti unveiled the new Ontario birth certificates today at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, pointing out that the polymer is the same material used to make Canadian bank notes.      The polymer birth certificates have a variety of embedded security features, including raised print, transparent windows and colour-shifting images.    Orazietti says the cost for printing each certficate will go up slightly by 41 cents for each certificate as around 200-thousand certificates are printed each year…

Orazietti adds that fees will remain the same…

The new polymer birth certificates will be available starting April 15.     The province says current birth certificates are still valid and do not need to be replaced.  Orazietti is responsible for signing all Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates and other vital statistic documents as Ontario’s Registrar General.