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Whether it is a title or a registration, it all boils down to legal ownership. It sounds like folks in your registration bureau may not understand all the regulations and they could probably care less since this is basic human nature (a position of power can go to some peoples head). You need to find out from someone in the know or you need to get access to the regulations and find out if there is a procedure that the RB folks you have been dealing with don't know about.

Here in the US, a person can get a legal ownership of anything from a court order. In this case the judge is a representative of a state that can grant you legal ownership of what you have. This is legal representation by the state and it has to be recognized by all of the state officials or they will be in violation of a state court order. There are similar ways of doing this in some states through a bonded title but all that does is give notice that a person is taking legal possession of something in that state but in a way it amounts to about the same thing.

I'm sure that such things can be done in a province of Canada as well. This is how a government can confiscate a possession, for one reason or another, from someone and in turn distribute that article to another person through due process. These processes go on daily in just about every free nation in the world as well as a lot of dictatorships. In that case they just take what they want so that doesn't apply here.