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: 31/October/2008 at 2:27pm
I have National Student Loans Service Centre's letter saying 'your Canada-Ontario Integrated Student Loan Account Number:.....................'
So I think I have Federal Student Loan and Ontario Student Loan.

Is that right?

But Collection Agent saying that I have only Federal Student loan and from today the interest rate going to be 1.99 per day for 15G. And he said I must pay full because I have Federal Student Loan. So he can't reduce it to a lump sum which I can pay?
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Hey there,
 
I know this was posted a while ago, but you never got an answer. In case you have not yet received one. Here is the info. If you have a canada - ontario intergrated loan it DOES mean that you have a federal and provincial loan. Part of it, once in colelction will be administered by CRA student loan collections and the other part by the provincial gov. As for the PCA (Private Collection Agency), they will by all means request payment in full since they are paid a percentage of what they collect (please note that you are NOT charged for the fees encountered by the hiring of the PCA, IE: you are not paying more interest on your loan). Second, you do have the possibility of making a payment arrangement with them. Payments arrangement however, will only be valid for 6 months and a new review will be done after the 6 months. You would need to complete, date and sign a financial questionnaire and provide supporting documents (proof of income, proof of expenses etc) this however, will acknowledge your debt, postponing the statute of limitation for an extra 6 years. Please note that this is applciable for the Federal part of your loan. I cannot provide any information on provincial loans.
 
Hope this help, and feel free to ask any questions
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This 6-month payment arrangement issue is collection agency standard. Not government. What you are describing is exactly how a collection agency does things. As for acknowledgements, people can submit things without acknowledging if they truly wanted to in cases whereas the individual has no ability to repay. Payment though is an acknowledgement in every sense of the term.
 
As for the Ontario loans, there are no limitations that bind the Ontario government as of now anyway.
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I never mentioned that the 6 months repayment arrangement was only the governement. All I stated was what the PCA should be doing for the federal student loan, since in this case, they are governed by the government. The financial questionnaire will be considered an AOD (ackowledgement of debt) (since it will be signed and dated and it does mention the student loan) wheter you have the means to pay or not (payment arrangement, short term assessment and or long term), however; payments are not always condidered and AOD since they could of been issued by a 3rd party.

This is a catch 22, in order to make a repayment arrangement (or aplpy for hardship), you need to complete the financial questionnaire, however; it will re-start the clock on the status of limitaton.

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That is the point. It isn't the government's directive (internal policy). Collection agencies created these 6-month payment plan requirements, and the government really has no issue with it anyway. As for the financial questionaire that they (the government) distributes, yes it does state that upon signing you acknowledge the debt. However, who said that a financial disclosure has to be submitted on their form?
 
Payments are considered an admission - even if they are made by a third-party. However, if a third party makes a payment "for" a debtor that is not authorized and gets caught, that would be a wrongful action and would not count. But, if an authorized party makes a payment for a debtor, that is an admission of liability because it is an authorized and voluntary action that fits the description.
 
 
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I send 6 cheques to three different parties every 6 months (Nordon for the Ministry of Government Services/Ontario Student Loan, ARC for HRDC/Receiver General for Canada Student Loan, and CBV for CIBC - also a CSL. I have been doing this for years and years. Sometimes one of them will call me and say "I need more information before I can get this arrangement approved". I always ignore requests for financial statements and proof of income, etc. - and they always cash my biweekly cheques.   - Rach

 

 
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