Toronto, Ontario
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) today announced that three businesses have pleaded guilty and have been fined following a joint investigation into illegal business practices related to the employment of foreign nationals.
On February 28, 2025, in Oshawa, Ontario, the three businesses pleaded guilty as follows:
- CDA Landscape Services, to 20 counts of employing a foreign national without authorization
- TDA Landscape Services, to 2 counts of employing a foreign national without authorization
- SDA Services, to 2 counts of employing a foreign national without authorization
As a result, CDA Landscape Services was fined $400,000, TDA Landscape Services was fined $25,000 and SDA Services was fined $25,000.
This joint investigation began in 2019 when a foreign national was arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) for impaired driving. CBSA and OPP investigators discovered a network of unauthorized workers spanning multiple jurisdictions across southern and eastern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area.
During the investigation, more than 700 foreign nationals were identified throughout Ontario who had been employed by the organization without authorization to work in Canada. Several individuals were found to be inadmissible due to criminality and were subsequently removed from Canada by the CBSA.
