[LucyT]

Thanks, Seizethecarp.

[Kenny Bunk]

Read what Onaka actually certifies. .... says that the information in the image “matches” the information in the HI file

That is the long and the short of it. There is no "document" beyond what the WH created from bits and pieces of the digital data provided to them.

At best, the wh version can be called an "Abstract." Put on the thinking cap. Imagine you must register a used automobile, but do not have the original title, or a certified replacement. You repair to your trusty PC, turn on Photoshop and the scanner and create one from bits and pieces of information you found in the glove compartment, which may, or may not be accurate, cutting and pasting into scanned matrix from another title. Perhaps there's one or two things about the vehicle you do not wish the DMV to know. That's OK, just leave them out.

So you create a title. Try that on your DMV and see how far you get. In the BC case, there is no original document. So, they made one, and they have been caught.