{"id":5286,"date":"2016-05-10T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pierreroy.com\/en\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:29:50","slug":"consumer-proposals-on-the-rise-in-quebec-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierreroy.com\/en\/2016\/05\/consumer-proposals-on-the-rise-in-quebec-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Proposals on the rise in Quebec in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy issued last month the Insolvency Statistics for Canada in 2015<\/a> and the figure that gets immediately noticed\u00a0is the increase in consumer proposals in Quebec by 12% compared to 2014.<\/p>\n

This increase translates into 19,166 Quebec consumers who have taken advantage of this solution to settle their debts in 2015. This is a considerable number, especially when compared to the situation in 2011, only five years ago, when\u00a010,141 consumers filed a proposal to their creditors.<\/p>\n

About the Consumer Proposal<\/h2>\n

A consumer proposal<\/a> is a solution under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act<\/em> that allows an honest debtor a fresh start, free from his unsecured debts (credit cards, personal loans, tax debts, etc.).<\/p>\n

Specifically, it is a\u00a0debt\u00a0settlement offer over an extended period of up to 5 years. For example, a consumer with unsecured debt of $100,000 can, via a Licensed Insolvency Trustee<\/em>, file a proposal to his creditors offering them $30,000 over 60 months, hence $500 per month. The debtor will be making only one monthly payment to the trustee and the amount paid must respect the debtor’s true\u00a0repayment capacity according to his income.<\/p>\n

Why the increase?<\/h2>\n

Generally, it is consumers with assets, such as\u00a0a property with substantial equity, who turn to the consumer proposal because it does not affect the debtor’s property.<\/p>\n

The appraised values\u00a0of properties in Quebec, considered high by the CMHC<\/a>, inevitably contribute to inflated equity of Quebecers in their homes and explains, in part, the increase in proposals.<\/p>\n

Another motivation for filing a consumer proposal is more psychological than financial. Consumer proposal allow a consumer to avoid personal bankruptcy, a solution\u00a0still frowned upon by some despite the fact that nearly 25,000 Quebecers use it\u00a0annually.<\/p>\n

Personal bankruptcies in neutral<\/h2>\n

While consumer proposals are surging, the number of individuals using personal bankruptcy<\/a> is relatively stable (+0.4%). When analyzing the situation over five years, although we note a slight decline: 25,627 bankruptcies in 2011 compared to 24,539 in 2015, down 4.2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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