Last-minute documentation panic

I realized an hour ago that I have no documents for M'hijo.  He doesn't have a birth certificate or a social insurance number.  He has a CareCard (universal health care that he's never used), but this is not a valid form of identification since it doesn't show citizenship or custody. 

Since we leave for a four-week roadtrip in the US in two days, this realization caused me to freak out.  After some rapid web research, it became clear that there is no way that we could get that kid across the border without papers, unless we did as Sahsez suggested and hid him in the wheel well.

My favourite thing to do when faced with an untenable situation like this own is to foist responsibility onto the strong, broad shoulders of my husband,  who, as luck would have it, works just a block from the Vital Statistics office! 

He got it all sorted with a rush order on a birth certificate for M'hijo, which will cost us forty bucks more than the usual price of a birth certificate.  So I guess we are now paying for my renegade attitude back in February when I decided not to order a birth certificate for M'hijo, since I couldn't see the point of it and resented having to shell out for something like that.