Peter Julian at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On November 15th, 2016. See this statement in context.

November 15th, 2016 / 10:10 a.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC

Thank you.

I'm going to go to Ms. Pichette.

Turning to interest on federal student loans, are there any plans to eliminate all interest for students, given that we're seeing, evidently, that post-secondary education debt is a huge barrier to post-secondary education, which leads to higher poverty rates?

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