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: 04/June/2005 at 5:33am
My ongoing complaint to the Office of the Nova Scotia Ombudsman, involving maladministration by both government and bank staff and their agents is being unduly delayed. The provincial Ombudsman referred of my complaint back to Service Nova Scotia, in 2004.

The lawyers who represented the Royal Bank student loan administration, George Caines and Grant Machum of Stewart NcElvies Strerling and Scales of Halifax, sent police to my door twice in two consecutive days, once after 9:00 PM at night,and FALSELY alleged to the Police that I threatened them by fax. I have copies of all correspondence to this firm, and their allegation is a lie.

The two lawyers of the firm Stewart McElvies Sterling and Scales, a man named Grant Machum, while the first letter which this law firm sent police to deliver was from a man named George Caines.

George Caines is the Nova Scotia legal agent for Trans Union Credit reporting of whom I complained to the Service Nova Scotia, and is also on the Board of the Nova Scotia Power.

Further, the Machum character was recently convicted of soliciting whores on Halifax streets and is the brother in law of the Federal MP Geoff Regan. I believe these lawyers committed the harassment simply out of arrogance.

I believe that my complaints against the Royal and CIBC banks open with both the federal Privacy Commission and Service Nova Scotia are being purposely delayed by the governments involved, and ignored, causing me serious financial damage.

These claims have been opened for years now, my original complaint with the province was in 2001 and resulted in a bill collector being terminated. This was only ONE instance of harassment. I have supplied these bureaucrats with many others.

I believe that the negligence by the government bureaucrats is deliberate, and the harassment by these two 'lawyers' should be Addressed by the Nova Scotia Barristers Society.

Further I have provided ample proof of harassment, and financial damage and ongoing damage to my name , character and ability to earn a living.

Surely we need honest government who are not afraid of prosecuting goons like these two lawyers, the goons who work for the banks and their agents and surely a CLASS ACTION proceeding for the maladministration and financial losses suffered by so many of us who went to university on student loans and had their lives ruined.




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Hi Peter,
 
I know it has been a while but, if you are still reading these columns, or if someone outthere know what happened to Peter, I would love to know.
 
Thanks.
Has a class action been started? Where? How can I join?
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