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1996-2016

May 2013

Debt sentence

How Canada’s student loan system is failing young people and the country

Thomas Pawlick. Bradenton, FL: BookLocker.com, 2012; 246 pp; ISBN: 978-1-62141-779-8, paper $15.95 usd, eBook $4.99 USD.

Thomas Pawlick exposes the exploitation and entrapment in Canada’s student loan system: a system that cripples or destroys the careers, health and hopes of thousands while lining the pockets of banks, collection agencies and bureaucrats. Perhaps most alarming is the creation of a two-tiered education system, favouring the wealthy and excluding the rest of us. Pawlick’s critique combines historical analysis, contemporary information and students’ personal accounts to show how our system fails society and sentences Canada’s youth to lifetime debt.

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