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: 28/January/2008 at 5:04am
Hi All,
 
The Government of Canada will introduce the 2008 budget in Feb and the Dept of Finance is seeking input from Canadians as to what we think should be in the budget.
 
This is our chance to tell the Government that improvements to the Canada Student Loan Program should be a priority.  
 
Here is the background
 
Here is where you can provide input to the Government:
 
The CSL could be listed under the last point (point 7) on their online  form and ranked most important.
"Other: If you believe the Budget should have a priority different from any of the above, assign a priority to this box. You will be able to explain this priority on the next page"
 
Improving the Canada Student Loan Program could also be mentioned under points 1-6 of their online form.   Training young Canadians is important to the economy and is relavant to points 1-6.
 
Hope everyone fills out the form and tells the Government to improve the Canada Student Loan Program.  
 
 
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