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Originally Posted by Slava
There is one party with a platform you might love in this regard. The plan is that if the person works for a decade in Alberta then their loans are forgiven.
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I think that is a terrible idea. So the doctor who borrows money from the government is bribed to stay in Alberta with the promise that their debt will be forgiven after ten years of work yet the doctor who instead decided to work hard every summer and throughout the school year to pay for their tuition and graduates with little or no debt is instead encouraged to go to another province that offers a signup bonus to attract new doctors.
While going to school I worked manual labour 60 hours a week throughout the summer to pay for tuition and graduated debt free, one of my colleagues took a lower paying job because they wanted weekends off and spent every weekend going away (spending money). In the end he graduated with $20000 in debt. Does the government really need to subsidize the lifestyle of someone who now has an Engineering degree and will spend his life comfortably in the middle class?