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: 23/October/2004 at 6:46am

I went to school and graduated Feb 1997...

I had the run around with the scotia bank trying to find out when and what loan number to pay on....they told me to wait and they would send me something ....I waited and received nothing ,....call them back they said that my file had been refered to collections..????

being young at the time I decided *&(&* them they screwed my credit I wasn't going to pay them ....I didn't never have payed a cent ...I was from BC ....I have now been living in AB since nov 98...

I recieved a call from a collector ....in um...late 2000....they would not discuss payments unless I gave them 5600.00 down...which I didn't have ....I got scared and recieved bad information from a trustee and went bankrupt ....Jan 2001....

since beening realeased from bankruptcy I have just recieved a call from a different collector ...he is beeing suprizingly nice .....he called me over a month ago and I still haven't paid a cent ....I just keep telling him I will see what I can do about paying it out...

My question would be .....Is this student loan Stat Barred ???

Do you go by the statute of limitation in the provence you live in or the province the loan was taken out in?

when I went bankrupt 5 years into the loan did I suspend the limitations...

please help......thanks

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I again just got off the phone with the collector ...he said he was going to sue me ( well the bank of NS ) was ....then he changed his tune and told me to call his lawyer ....ask him about the limitations

Is he trying to scare me ....I look up the lawyers name that he gave me and he Is a lawyer ( as far as the alberta law society says).

I don't know what to do ...Please some stories simular or advice please .....

 

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Contact Johnny (see the front page of the site). For a fee, he can sort all of this out and tell you if your loan is stats barred, etc. I wouldn't trust a word that a collection agency's lawyer told me about limitations on loans.

 

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Ditto that.  This sounds like standard CA tactics. 

If you are going to be involved in legal action retain YOUR OWN council.  I'd suggest Johnny (CFWG) for SL issues.

Don't trust legal advice that you are not soliciting yourself.  Their "lawyer" could be the CA one desk over!
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Taking that "lawyer's" advice would be like asking your opponent in a boxing match for a few pointers.

That ambulance chasing bottom feeder is the worst kind of slime vomited up by a third rate diploma factory pretending to be a law school. And he's your ENEMY.

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