Loans Costing Public Billions

Loan payments and interest last year cost Canadian households the equivalent of more than triple the national defence budget, new data show. Statistics Canada calculated interest payments owed on credit cards, installment loans and other non-mortgage debt totaled $38.3 billion, with another $60 billion paid on principal: “What happens when there is no paycheque?”

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