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: 02/March/2007 at 6:03am
'One-child' policy violators to be put on shame list
By Guan Xiaofeng (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-02 06:57


The rich and famous who have ignored the country's family planning policy by having more than one child will have to pay a heavy price, according to a senior official with the National Population and Family Planning Commission.

In addition to hefty fines, they will have their names recorded in an official "bad credit" file and be disqualified for any awards and honours from society, said Yu Xuejun, director of the commission's Department of Policies and Laws.

Yu said the commission is drafting a regulation with "concrete measures" to punish the rich and famous for having more than one child, but he did not give details.

While the family planning policy is popularly referred to as the "one child policy", it in fact limits only 35.9 percent of the population to having one child, according to the commission.

In 19 provinces, farmers are allowed to have a second child if the first is a girl. They account for more than half of the total population.

Farmers in five provinces or autonomous regions Hainan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang are allowed to have two children. They account for nearly 10 percent of the population.

The policy does not apply to people from ethnic minorities.

But many celebrities in cities, who can easily afford the fines about three times the average disposable income for urban household often have two children. "And 10 percent of them even have three," Yu told China Daily on Wednesday.

He admitted the matter had drawn great public attention.

"They will have to pay a dear price if they violate the family planning policy," Yu said.

He said violations of the policy was also widespread among migrant workers, who account for more than 10 percent of the country's population.

Yu estimated 5 to 10 percent of migrant workers leave their homes to have more children. He admitted the government has no effective way to tackle the problem.

China has maintained its family planning policy since the early 1970s. It has helped reduce the country's population by 400 million and had delayed the present 1.3 billion population mark by four years.

China will have 8 to 10 million more people each year in the coming two decades, according to the commission.
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You forgot one thing, a lot of Rich Chinese family are start to have their children in Canada or USA, then they move back to China, the parents might be Chinese citizen, but children will hold a Canadian and USA passport.   China can not do anything about it.   
Of course, Canada and USA government gets a huge chunk of money.

That's how I have a brother that is much younger than me.  ^_^

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