This website is a testimony to the problems Canadian Student Loan borrowers experienced from approximately 1996 to 2008 and until their loans were paid off.

The privatization of the Student Loans system by the Chretien and Martin Liberal governments broke the system and defaulted thousands of borrowers who were trying to pay their loans. There were even stories of suicide due to the harassment of borrowers.

Read the report that I prepared back in 2007 here. Canada Student Loans-The Need for Change Fortunately the new Conservative government at the time revamped the program and fixed the system for new borrowers, but borrowers under the previous program were left with ruined credit and continued harassment from debt collectors.

I call on the Canadian Government to apologize to the borrowers affected by this fiasco and make amends.

Unfortunately the Liberal government is again clobbering the Education system with their upcoming changes to International Student Visas. Yes, there's a problem, but instead of a well thought out plan, they have pulled the emergency brake on the train causing a derailment. This has introduced unprecedented instability for both private and public education institutions who serve both international and local students.

Universities can't plan. I've heard of courses being cut because the government has no process in place for universities to send the newly required acceptance letters to the government.

This means that students who have been accepted can not attend courses that start in the summer 2024 semester. With cut sections, current Canadian students will have trouble getting courses, and may have to switch to part-time which changes their enrollment status and might trigger repayment of their loans or ineligibility for funding. I've seen this before. It wreaks havoc on the student loan borrowers.

Again, the Liberal government has messed up the education environment. Will the new system needed in a rush for the acceptance letters be the new Arrivecan scandal?

I call on the government to implement a slower phased in approach and delay the requirement of the acceptance letters until a process is in place to submit these letters.


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    Posted: 05/November/2004 at 9:14am

I write this today moments after pulling my latest report from Equifax online.  For the first time in at least 8 years, let me just say my report is SPARKLING--and I have one man to thank...John LeBlanc.

My story is a common one of heavy student debt, but my own path took a detour in September of 2000.  Leaving University earlier that year, I found a job and resolved myself to finally cleaning up my mess.  Riding the subway one day, I saw an ad for the CCS of Toronto, and soon made an appointment to see them, thinking that was my only way out.

In an honest attempt to clear and pay everything I owed off, I brought forth all my collection letters (Scotia Student/Federal Loans and OSAP) in my possession.  From the moment I walked into their cheesy offices, I was skeptical.  Nonetheless, I met with them for 30 mins, gave them all my collection letters and was told they would send off "proposals".  After much follow up from me, my payment plan started, including their initial $200 "setup" fee and $20/month "service" fee.

I thought things were actually fine for the next two years and I was able to settle directly with one agency for one huge Scotia student bill, and paid off in due time the other OSAP portion I owed through CCS.  I closed my file...or so I thought.  And, for a brief moment in time, my report was clear.  That was two years ago. 

Then the fun began.  No more than 10 days after downloading a copy of my clear credit report, an agency, Contact Resource Services, and the most militant, unprofessional agent I have EVER had the good fortune of dealing with - "JESSICA" - called me saying I owed $10,000 to ScotiaBank.  Impossible, I thought.  I settled this a year ago.  Faxed her the proof.  Different account.  And guess what...under the collections heading of my Equifax credit report, there it was--a new posting of $10,000 owing to ScotiaBank.  I was back to square one.

Although I had brought it forward to be resolved, CCS of Toronto had totally neglected to add one account to the proposal, and for that matter, ScotiaBank missed it as well.  It went unnoticed by me as I was making a $500/month blanket payment to CCS which was then pushed out to Scotia.

Here's the kicker--this separate Scotia Federal Loan account had been dormant since 1998.  I had never acknowledged it or made a payment to it since then.  Yet...it showed one rogue payment in Aug of 2003. 

Enter John.

The conclusion John and I drew was that the bank, knowingly or ..., took my one payment for my other Scotia matter and allocated it to the wrong account, thus reactivating it.  The funny thing is, I tried to make good on everything.  Through an unbelievable series of twists, turns, and major screwups not of my own accord, I was now culpable 7 years after the fact, and 4 years after I tried to get legit.

Allow me just to say he is brilliant at what he does.  Being brilliant at what you do makes for happy clients (me).  It also empowers a man like John to take a formidable, Schedule A bank and make them grovel on their knees like the morons they are.

IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS from the time I called John, not only has he defended my rights, exposed the wrong doings of a Schedule A bank AND made things right again, his work was extended to the major credit reporting firms and I am now clean and credit worthy again.

Bottom line--JOHN LeBLANC is worth EVERY penny you spend on his services.  He is the modern day David of David and Goliath fame.  That sounds dramatic and it is!  He is the real deal and simply just trust in him.  Your role will be to provide him any and all information that relates to you (a given). 

Beyond that, let him do his job, and if there is a way to help, he will, no question.

-J
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