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: 24/October/2006 at 11:08pm
If you get a letter or other documents from the government they may be marked with some of the following:

PROTECTED "A"
PROTECTED WHEN COMPLETED - B

Or other such terms...

I need to know what this meant (OCD) so I went searching the net.

The following is some of what I found.. hope it will help others.

Designated information is information not concerning the national interest, but which still must be protected, as its release because if it was compromised, it could cause injury to a specific government department, corporate interests or individuals. Examples of designated information are personal information, self-identification data and medical records. Treasury Board recommends the use of three levels of designation:

  1. Protected A - Low Sensitivity: applies to information that, if compromised, could reasonably be expected to cause injury or embarrassment outside the national interest; e.g., disclosure of an exact salary figure.

  2. Protected B - Particularly Sensitive: applies to information that, if compromised, could reasonably be expected to cause serious injury outside the national interest and often include information, which if released, would reasonably compromise individual privacy e.g., loss of reputation or competitive advantage.

  3. Protected C - Extremely Sensitive: applies to the very limited amount of information that, if compromised, could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave injury outside the national interest and could result in loss of life or serious financial harm; e.g., bankruptcy or loss of life (e.g., the disclosure of the identity of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police informant).

  4. Confidential, Secret or Top Secret:  would, as a general rule, cause injury to the social, political, or economic order of Canada if compromised. Confidential documents include those whose premature disclosure would be detrimental to government plans or intentions, such as negotiations. Private views of officials on public events are also considered Confidential. Documents classified as Secret would endanger national security, cause serious injury to the interests or prestige of the nation, or give substantial advantage to a foreign power. Such documents include records of Cabinet discussions, proposed legislation, documents or material pertaining to important government plans, and documents pertaining to national security. Top Secret documents, if compromised, would cause grave damage to the national interest. Top Secret documents could be expected to deal with issues of national defence and international treaties or agreements.
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The above definitions are not completely accurate.
 
There are different connotations to protection levels depending on what department/group the information is being held by.
 
When it comes to the definitions above, they appear to be specific to the RCMP.
 
Typically the public will usually run into information that has been protected by government agencies or private industry. In these cases the information is protected under the direction of Public Works and Government Services Canada's (PWGSC's) Canadian and International Industrial Security Directorate (CIISD).
 
Their Canadian guidelines for protecting information can be found at http://www.ciisd.gc.ca/text/isp/isp-e.asp and are as follows:
 
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What is PROTECTED information
  1. PROTECTED is a Canadian term meaning information and assets related to other than the national interest that may qualify for an exemption or exclusion under the Access to Information Act or Privacy Act. There are three levels of PROTECTED information: PROTECTED A; PROTECTED B; and, PROTECTED C.

    These levels are defined as follows:

    A subset of PROTECTED information and assets that could reasonably be presumed to cause injury if compromised may be marked PROTECTED A

    A subset of PROTECTED information and assets that could reasonably be expected to cause serious injury if compromised may be marked PROTECTED B.

    A subset of PROTECTED information and assets that could reasonably be presumed to cause extremely serious injury, such as loss of life, if compromised may be marked PROTECTED C."
When it comes to the military (DND) and law enforcement (RCMP, Police) information is protected under different guidelines, and often use a much more complex set of protection levels than can vary greatly inter-departmentally.
 
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