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Envitro · 01-11-2019, 10:03 AM

Yup, this has been a practice in Canada for forever.

We came to Canada in 1992 during the Balkan wars as refugees. It ended up being something like $6000 for the four of us. Adjusted for inflation, that's $9,456.91, so about the same.

We did have a certain number of years to pay it off (via a payment plan) and they didn't demand it all at once. I think there was a 1 or 2 year grace period before payments were due. I do remember us paying it off and it feeling like a big f#####g deal.

It pretty much covered things like our airfare and the cost of some of the paperwork and health testing?, etc, from what I can recall, but I was pretty young so I could be wrong.

01-11-2019, 10:03 AM	#640
Envitro First Line Centre Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Saddledome, Calgary Exp:	Yup, this has been a practice in Canada for forever. We came to Canada in 1992 during the Balkan wars as refugees. It ended up being something like $6000 for the four of us. Adjusted for inflation, that's $9,456.91, so about the same. We did have a certain number of years to pay it off (via a payment plan) and they didn't demand it all at once. I think there was a 1 or 2 year grace period before payments were due. I do remember us paying it off and it feeling like a big f#####g deal. It pretty much covered things like our airfare and the cost of some of the paperwork and health testing?, etc, from what I can recall, but I was pretty young so I could be wrong.