NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Saturday announced an ambitious plan to tackle student debt in an effort to help post-secondary students struggling financially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan includes a moratorium on student loan payments until the end of the pandemic, and it would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt.
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