Must Update 1978 Usury Law

Canada’s usury law, unchanged in nearly 40 years, must be updated to counter “whack-a-mole” practices of predatory lenders, the Senate banking committee has been told. Senators are reviewing a bill to lower criminal interest rates to 21%: “Are people in debt because of payday loans, or are people going to payday loans because they are in debt?”

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