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: 02/February/2005 at 6:17pm

Hi, I'm new here. My former housemate (ABC) went back to her home country for good like 3 months ago. Before she left, she made sure that she paid all of her credit cards obligations. But now, I got a call from a lady who didn't want to reveal her name and company, saying that ABC has to call this number (a 1-877 numbers - it turns out to be Nordon's) and said that it is important. She's been calling us for days and we already told her that this person is no longer at this number. She insists to leave a message (Case number ### Zellers owing 130 bucks) for her.

So yesterday she called again, when I told her that ABC is not living here anymore, she went ballistic and cursing, saying that we're hiding ABC. She was basically harrassing us. ABC told us that she did checked and paid all her CC debt in full before leaving the country. She doesn't remember she has debt for 130 bucks with Zellers, since she never received any bills from them (I can verify that since I'm the one who gets home earlier and gets all the mail) We also don't receive any bill statements under her name anymore.

My question is 1. will she call us again? 2. will nordon chase her down to her home country? 3. if she were to travel/ immigrate here, will it affect her immigration status? 4. I know that for us, the canadian citizens, the debt will be written off after 7 years, but is it also applicable for foreigners?

Thanks in advance for your input

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Patty...this site deals specifically with consumer debt issues:

http://www.canadaconsumerdebt.ca/default.asp

 

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