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 upcoming 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 can't plan. I've heard of courses being cut because the government has no process in place for universities to send the newly required acceptance letters to the government.

This means that students who have been accepted can not attend courses that start in the summer 2024 semester. With cut sections, current Canadian students will have trouble getting courses, and may have to switch to part-time which changes their enrollment status and might trigger repayment of their loans or ineligibility for funding. I've seen this before. It wreaks havoc on the student loan borrowers.

Again, the Liberal government has messed up the education environment. Will the new system needed in a rush for the acceptance letters be the new Arrivecan scandal?

I call on the government to implement a slower phased in approach and delay the requirement of the acceptance letters until a process is in place to submit these letters.


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    Posted: 01/March/2005 at 5:31pm

Hello everyone! I am glad I found this site, there is so much valuable info here, but I hope that I don't need it..like how to handle collection agents and the like.

Here's my CSL debt story.

I attended college and university for a total of three years in BC from '98-01 and aquired a total prov. and fed. debt of about 18,000 , but I am really not sure how much the total really is, or how it is split between the two.

I became Ill with depression in 2000 and my grades faltered and I eventually stopped attending classes.  The years from 2000 until the summer of 2004 are mired in a fog created by either my illness or by the medication I was on, or both, but I have a hard time remembering much about it. My spouse and I did move from BC for a year and a half and we did declare bancruptcy in 2002, which erased our debts which we had no hope of repaying in my condition and being unable to work for the forseeable future. I don't know if CSl, the bank, or the Govn't tried to contact me or not, I simply do not remember.  I do remember getting something in the mail stating that monies that were owed were transferred to the Govn't, but I burned all my student loan stuff before moving from BC...I was in a terrible state due to my illness.

I have recently been feeling MUCH better and I am off of all meds and have just started working again..the first time in years. We are back in BC and I have no CSL or bank loan records at all..all burned.  I called up the student loan service centre, I believe, and told them that I've been sick for some time and have no Idea who I owe or how much, but I want to deal with it now. They told me they have no info other than that the loan was returned to the government and gave me a number to call. The student loan centre asked for my new address and number, and I called the Fed. number they gave me and updated the same for them..but that was six weeks ago and I have heard nothing.

How can I deal with this without them just sending a collection agency after me? I would rather just deal with the Govn't on this, who by the way are keeping my income tax returns, however meagre they may have been.

Do I have any chance at keeping this from Collections?

Interested to hear your responses...

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 Welcome to the site

 If your guaranteed student loan (CSL) is ind efault, and they have anchored the statutory set-off process, then you will not be able to have it pulled from third-party collection unless the agency is caught violating the rules and your rights.

 If you need any help, feel free to contact me.

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Thanks for the welcome, Johnny.

What do you mean if "they hve anchored the statutory set off process" ?

I will consider contacting you if I need help, but I know there is a fee involved, and I have just returned back to work but have no extra money for such things right now..all I will be able to afford is to pay about 150 toward my debt per month.

Should I just contact HRDC and ask where I can send payments to, and if they can send me info on how much I owe, etc. ?

Thanks.

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