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iPolitics By Jolson Lim. Published on Apr 21, 2021 5:21pm A Money Mart store in Brampton, Ont., in July 2020 (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star)
Ottawa will consider lowering the maximum interest rate to stop the “predatory lending” of outfits that make high-interest loans, which anti-poverty advocates say have exploited Canadians during the pandemic.
In Monday’s budget, the federal government announced plans to launch consultations on lowering the “criminal rate of interest,” the maximum annualized interest rate for credit allowed under the federal Criminal Code.
For instalment loans longer-term credit with high interest lenders can charge up to 60 per cent annual interest under the usury rules.
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Donna Borden, an ACORN member, advocates for stricter regulations of lenders selling high interest instalment and payday loans.
A single mother working the front desks at both a hospital and a nursing home, Donna Borden watched her debts grow.
On top of Toronto’s cost of living, Borden was juggling bills left behind when her mother died, plus helping her son buy university textbooks.
“I was trying to keep a roof over our heads,” Borden told HuffPost Canada.
Her bank refused to consolidate her debts and recommended she use the lender Fairstone Financial, then called CitiFinancial, Borden said. She took out an instalment loan in 2008 $10,000 to be paid back over five years with about 40 per cent interest.
ACORN Canada Study Finds a Surge in the Usage of Installment Loans, and Growth in High-Interest Online Loans
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