US Residency

I am living in the US and have what Foreign Affairs describes as a conflict with the Department of Justice Collections Litigation and Advisory Services.  I have a Canadian student loan that according to US law has been rehabilitated.   The Canadian Department of Justice though does not recognize my rights under US or International Law or under Canadian law for that matter. As I am a Canadian Foreign Affairs will not handle my case instead referring me to the Department of Justice which sends all of my correspondence straight to Collections Litigation and Advisory Services.  It’s a classical roundabout. Rest assured though if there was a foreign government involved in my mistreatment, Foreign Affairs would be demanding redress and a respect for international law.  Of course there is another standard when it comes to demanding some integrity and accountability from the Canadian government. 

The senior counsel and paralegals at CLAS have demonstrated a total indifference to the law in my case.  They have in fact indulged in an orgy of illegality on my behalf.  In December 2002 I discovered that many of the payments that I had been making for 20 months had either not been credited to my account correctly or were missing—about 90% of the entries were incorrect.  I have also repeatedly requested a statement of interest paid for tax purposes and have never received one.  I have called and written HRDC and CLAS.  A normal response to my situation would have been to locate the missing funds, perhaps adjust the loan to acknowledge any suffering on my part and amend the dates to reflect the proper payment history.  They did find some of the money but they made no effort to ensure that they found all of it or that it was accurately entered on my statement history.  They promised to amend the statement of account to reflect the dates payments were received but did not bother with this and then told me it was unimportant.  I have all of this in writing.   To be eligible for loan rehabilitation one has to have made consecutive payments for 12 months.  The response on the part of HRDC and CLAS to my inquiry about rehabilitation was to simply change the dates on the Statement of Account for some entries to ensure I would not qualify.  To me it seems that the paralegals at CLAS screwed up and were negligent and they decided to cover up the affair.  That may be too simple of an explanation but the only other alternative would be that Justice has been taken over by baboons with no knowledge of the law or basic math.