Was talking to a lawyer.

[walter]

Had an interesting conversation today with a lawyer.

Needed a notary to witness me sign a land transfer from out of province.
Went to the lawyers office in the next town because the only one in my tiny town never returned my calls.

I knew this lawyer personally for a long time because our kids played soccer against each other for years.
We had some small talk about the kids now both just finished university, it was nice.

I used my SOLB as ID and he was alright with it.
He even made me a notarized copy of the SOLB for free and only charged me 50 bucks instead of 100 for the other land transfer issue. And he called the out of province lawyer dealing with the transfer just to make sure everything was good because of the different paperwork between the two provinces. Took 20 minutes.

I told him that I don't use a DL as photo ID because it is property of the issuing agency and I am not an employee or agent of them being ICBC. If I use it as ID and that I know this info that it is not mine then that would be identity fraud and if I get him to accept it as ID for me when I know this info that I would be placing him in the position of aiding and abetting identity fraud and that I don't want to do that.
He responded with one word, "yep", while nodding his head up and down.

I also told him that I wanted to make my own photo ID using the SOLB as the backing of it and get it notarized and then send it off to get the red seal notary seal. (government issued ID) He just acknowledge the red seal notary process. I asked him if he ever notarized photo ID for anyone using the SOLB as the backing and he said no.

So there you have it, not all lawyers are breaking bad.
I left very happy.