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: 20/October/2016 at 3:46am
Hi, again.

I am really struggling under the weight of my loan.They are garnishing my tax returns, etc. I am in a low paying job and with the hardship clause...wondering if this is feasible. Everything seems like a gamble to me, at this point. What if...the hardship process does not work?! Should I have just waited a further two years?
Has anyone, successfully taken this route? If anyone can give me as much information as possible on this...I would most appreciate it.
A trustee has told me that my case seems to fit the bill and that she would help represent me. Still...everything seems daunting to me.
Also...I have no other debt...how can I declare bankruptcy, nine months in advance of taking it to court...when I can't declare bankruptcy on other non existent debts?
I hope this is worded clearly enough to understand.
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Hardship is something the government criticizes heavily. However, you have to make a case for it and it requires a LOT of time and efforts. It is perhaps the most difficult of the benefit options that is or can be made available to student loan borrowers. 

If you make a case - have a case, then it is a good approach. Anyone who has the circumstances that can make the case is better off moving in this direction. Many people go bankrupt, find out that it was a bad move after the fact, and then are left with the conundrum of what you are sort of describing. A bankruptcy trustee can only administer bankruptcy ( insolvency assignment of consumer proposal). 

The government of Canada built and regulates bankruptcy and the private trustees who administer it,  as it was handed out to the private sector. However, with student loans and tax debt they frown upon it and find ways to exempt themselves from losing to it.  

There are no guarantees with anything. You have to make the right decisions and simply go with them based on what you discover to the best route. Trustees are going to find themselves struggling because like any powerful government program handed out to the private sector for business is going to used and abused for economic gain at the expense of who it's market is. Look at the Canada student loans program and the private service center it has (Was CIBC, then Edulinx, then Resolve after scandal involving Edulinx and Nelnet in the USA, now DH Ltd - with all the same people in the upper echelon. If that isn't fishy enough). 

The make hundreds of millions of dollars paid by the government, and here you are struggling to survive socially and financially because of that.  
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

I am seeing a trustee about it, very soon.

I think that I have a situation of hardship...and I don't mean that in an offhand way. I will discuss all the pros and cons with the trustee, and evaluate the situation based on that knowledge.

Thanks again. It is a very valuable service that you provide, in being an advocate for student loan fairness. I appreciate all that I read on this forum.
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Well...here is an update on my inquiry with a trustee, today, about the hardship process.
She delivered all my inquiries in a curt and brusque manner, and I took an immediate dislike to her approach, let alone her overall demeanor.
Without going into all the salient details, let it suffice it to say that she made me feel somewhat of a horrible person for even suggesting a way out of my debt. This, despite the fact, that it is nearly impossible for me to pay off, at my age and level of income.
I would NEVER hire her as a representative.
I left feeling deflated and discouraged but she suggested that I take it up with my MP and MLA. That might be good advice. Could it, be??
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