Jagmeet Singh Wants To Cancel Up to $20K Of Federal Student Loan Debt Per Student

He wants to work towards free tuition too.
Student Loans In Canada Could Be Cancelled By Jagmeet Singh
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If you have federal student loans in Canada you might get off the hook for paying them back, because Jagmeet Singh wants to cancel up to $20,000 of loan debt per student.

The NDP leader tweeted a petition calling for more help for post-secondary students instead of debt, and he has lots of ways to make that a reality.

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Cancelling up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt per student for both old and new graduates is just a part of his plan.

He also wants to reinstate the moratorium on student loan payments until the pandemic is over, permanently remove interest on all federal student loans, give new graduates a five-year period without having to repay federal student loans and work towards making tuition free.

While this is Singh's plan, he's calling on Justin Trudeau to do all of these things and "make sure young people thrive instead of being buried in debt."

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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