I find it a bit odd that I’m currently being inundated by ads for Canada Student Loans. I don’t think our government should be encouraging debt on its younger portions of society, although higher education is definitely a positive. I can see a bank marketing its loan programmes, but the government?
My final beef with the ads is that many of the images of students show how happy they are – I guess the thought of over 300,000 young adults being in debt is something to smile about.
The money spent on these ads could have easily been spent on an extra couple scholarships or put into post-secondary institutions so tuition could be a tad bit lower.
