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/June/2017 at 11:17am
Hi there,

The Nova Scotia portion of my student loan from 2003 is now apparently crown debt  But RBC or Resolve have no record of it. basically, I got NS student loan in 2003, but from 2004 onwards I was getting student bursaries from Québec instead (Québec gives disabled students bursaries rather than loans.)  In 2006, I moved back to the UK, to study, but have been getting bursaries from Québec since then. I was pretty depressed when I left in 2006, and also had really bad tendinitis (which I still have), which meant that I fell behind in updating records etc. Basically, I didn’t realize that Québec wouldn’t let the federal or provincial student loan programs know that I continue to be in full-time studies.  I called the national student loan service center, and my federal loan has been written off in the last 10 years,  but my provincial loan has gone into default and is now currently crown debt. They have been taking my GST credits against it. I called Service Nova Scotia today, explaining the situation and that I could prove I have been a full-time education for the past 10 years, to see if I can try and get my loan out of default. and the woman I spoke to said there was nothing she could do. She told me to call Nova Scotia student  Assistance who were very helpful, and said that it was a ‘ direct lend’  that was now handled by Resolve. Resolve have no record of the loan, they told me to call Royal Bank, who also have no record of it. I tried to call back Nova Scotia student assistance office, but wasn’t able to get through. So what do I do now?
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