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: 21/July/2012 at 6:58pm
I need advise.   I was discharged from bankruptcy in
October 2007 on loans that were 10 years old. Included in the discharge were all of my student loans-none of them were disputed - the discharge went through in 9 months without problems.   In 2009, I went back to school to pursue a PhD.   I am now entering the final year of my PhD and have funded it through scholarships and part-time teaching. A couple of months ago, I decided to see if I could obtain rehabilitation under student loans so that I could recieve a small student loan to help me finish, reduce my hours of
teaching, stress and finish my PhD before my scholarship funding runs out in the fall of 2013.

I applied and received full rehabilitation from both National and
Provincial Student Loans and was granted a student loan. After receiving confirmation of the loans I gave up work through the university for the summer and fall because the student loans were confirmed. Upon releasing the funds the National Student Loans Centre noticed a restriction placed on my file by Royal Bank Collections. They asked me to call RBC and asked to have the restriction removed so that they could release the student loan money. I called RBC Collections and they said that their records show that my end
of study date was 1997 and because of that my student loans were not
included in my bankruptcy. My end of study date was not in 1997, it was
1996. I was never registered and never attended school in 1997 and I did not dishonestly imply otherwise. My end of study date was 1996.

Giving up work because I was awarded student loans and now having them
not released is putting me and my children in serious financial risk. RBC Collections said they had to send for my file to confirm why their system says that my end of study date is 1997- and that it would take a couple of days. It has now been 10 days (I've called them every day) and each day they say they are still waiting for my file. I have offered to provide a letter from the university confirming that I was never a student in 1997 but they said the letter wouldn't help, they have
to wait for my file. I have no idea of who to contact and who can help me. I've contacted my trustee and she has said that if I was in school in 1997 my student loans would survive my bankruptcy. I told her I was never registered in school in 1997, nor did I intend to and she asked me to ask RBC to fax me a copy of the document that they are using to confirm my end of study date but RBC seems to be delaying the process. It's taken much longer than they initially said it would.   I'm very concerned because in just over a week I will not be able to pay rent or my monthly tuition payment. I am desperately in need of advice and not sure where to turn. Should I contact a lawyer?
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We're seeing more of these situations on this site. I suggest you call your trustee from your bankruptcy.....or the superintendent of Bankruptcy to see what they say can be done in these cases.  The collection agencies and banks don't seem to respect a legal discharge of the loans.  
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I believe the system recognizes the end of study date as the last day of the month of which studies ended.
 
All you need to do here is contact NSLSC and they will have record of it. So will HRSDC in Ottawa.
 
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Thank you so much - I really appreciate your time in responding. I have three questions and would be ever so grateful, if someone could help.

1. If I contact the NSLSC, do I then contact RBC given that they have the restriction placed on my file? Does RBC have to recognize the NSLSC end of study date?

2. Is the NSLSC end of study date the one that is used legally to determine a bankruptcy discharge?

3. Doesn't my end of study date have to be confirmed to be discharged from bankruptcy? Why would this come up now, 5 years later?

Thanks again for your time.


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I thought I should follow up with my earlier post. After a great deal of stress and difficult conversations with collections, RBC has decided not resume collections and has removed the restriction from my file. Thank you Johnny and Administrator for your help. My trustee faxed a copy of my detailed file in which CRA signed off saying they would not resume collections. RBC said they had to follow suit. I wonder how many other students they are doing this to? There is a general lack of integrity and honesty in all this. It's very disturbing.
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It is WIDESPREAD.
Did RBC close the remainder of your loan though? Or, did they just remove the restriction?
 
 
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