Student Loans and International Law

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No, I'm not a lawyer. But I can be messed up by other peoples' interpretations of the law either way.

Case for discussion: there's this opinion piece in The Tyee that got pointed out to me today.

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/03/02/Universal-Higher-Education-Canada/

Now I'm wondering about the effort I ploughed into taking work I didn't train for in order to pay down that student loan for my animation studies. Eight years of it.

And that loan scheme looks in retrospect as if it's in violation of this international covenant. Or am I misunderstanding the situation? I'm sure that someone from the Fraser Institute could try to talk me into believing as much.

I suspect that they should fail if they do.

How about the rest of you?

Comments

Fascinating

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Thanks for that link. I added it to this month's True North Perspective (https://www.truenorthperspective.com/March_2015) and kind of feel you should get a credit.

I'm not a lawyer either, but in my experience, TheTyee is pretty careful and Crawford Kilian is a reputable source.

I'm accepting it until someone proves otherwise. Someone more</em. more reputable than the fucking Frasier Institute!

Re: Fascinating

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Thanks for the news about the linkage, but I don't need the ego-boost that much.