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: 15/June/2006 at 4:08am

Okay, I'm completely on the verge of a breakdown here...  I have outstanding CSL and OSL and I was making payments until I lost my job.  I'm now at home with my two children (one born only a month ago) and my husband makes very little money.  We live in the US and I'm now a US citizen. 

CBCL has my loan file.  After reading around here, I was under the impression that they are no longer handling student loans as of last August.  And I had been sending post dated checks, which was also a bad idea.  So, I stopped payment on my checks and waited to hear from them.  I also wrote a letter asking for clarification on my account, etc., etc.

Well, a VERY rude woman from CBCL called today and really laid into me.  I told her that I had stopped payment and had sent a letter asking for clarification on my account.  She went CRAZY.  She laid into me.  I told her she was being very rude and then she went off completely and told me that I owe everything right now - immediately. I told her that this was not possible.  She said that I was then immediately in default.  I said "Well, then, come on after me."  I'm honestly not sure what else I can do at this point.

Since I'm living in the US and a US citizen, does this mean I can never even travel back to Canada to visit family?  Will the judgment they receive against me be in Canadian courts or US courts?  What is going to happen to me now?  I'm afraid I completely messed myself up by letting this exceptionally rude woman get to me...

Help!

 

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