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 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 have been forced to cancel programs and layoff hundreds if not thousands of full-time and contract instructors.

Again, the Liberal government has messed up the education environment.


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    Posted: 12/November/2004 at 1:22pm

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   I am a Canadian who left Canada in October of 2000 and have not looked back. I live and teach the whole time in the UK. I have been paying back my student loan but have been supply teaching (subbing) and can hardly make ends meet. Can I be pursued if I am in the UK? Will they sell my debt to a UK collection agency? I know if I returned to Canada and did not pay off my UK credit card that they would sell my UK debt to a Canadian company, would CIBC do it for a Canadian debt in the UK? Can I apply for some kind of loan forgiveness or interest relief while I live in the UK? (I have perm residency status in the UK now). Finding it is taking forever to pay back my loan (Fed of 21,000 and Alberta of 7,000), interest is outrageous. What would happen at my parents house? They have some of my possesions and it is the address I use to have CIBC mail my stuff to in Canada, can they go into my parents house? Recently applied for interest only repayments and am shocked with the interest. If I had no job in Canada or a real sh*te one would my repayments be changed to compensate? I currently pay 324 a month for fed and 123 a month for alberta, interest only is 115 for fed and 42 for alberta, feel like I am being taken for a dolt, should I be charged this rate?

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If you plan on staying in the UK and are ok with skipping on the debt, stop paying and go to ground.

in a few years the debts will be barred from collection by the limitation laws and that's the end of the story.

Up to you.

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 Residing in the UK will not stop HRDC and SDC from doing what is necessary to secure their best interest, Islander.

 You are right in saying "Up to You". Yam will know one day if he made the right decision or not.

 

 

 

 

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I'm not aware of what arrangements the undead have with the UK. I certainly defer to your expertise.

Equally, I never advocate skipping. That's always a personal choice and I make no moral judgments. Sometimes it's the only alternative, sometimes it's the best alternative, sometimes it's just cheesy.

Like I said. It's her (his) call).

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