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: 01/April/2008 at 5:10am

I have a student loan that I have had for about 9.5 years now and I an trying to pay off my bills, I have my Ontario Student loan with a credit counselor along with other debts that I have but here is the problem, I make a whole whopping $900.00 a month if I'm lucky, I have 3 kids to support and bills to pay so I haven't been paying the Canada student loan AT ALL it has now grown to a scary $26,000.00 debt because of interest, I can't afford to pay my credit counselor most months for the $15,000.00 I have with them, I go to the food bank more then I do Grocery stores, and my phone, hydro, cable, and internet are about to be cut off as I can't afford to pay them either, my car just broke down so I have no way to get to work now and I can't afford my babysitter anymore, so pretty much I'm out of luck.  My income tax gets taken by the government, I use to pay a little extra income tax with my pay checks so that I could save money to get my kids eye glasses and take them to the dentist at the end of every year but now the government takes it all so my kids have to go with out, and so do I.  I just want this all to go away. I wish I had never tried to make something out of myself by going to school, that was the stupidest thing I ever did!  I would have been happier with no college and a minimum wage job then I would be right now! Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? I heard that there is a way to get loans lowered so that a pathetic person like myself might be able to TRY to make payments but every website I have checks out just referred me back to another website until I was going in circles.  Boy do I wish I could disappear right now......anyway, if you know what to do please let me know! and Good luck to all the others out there like me!Ouch

MissMJ
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