Coquitlam, B.C., meat business caught in pay-to-work scheme must repay foreign worker, tribunal rules

By Patrick Penner | Tri-Cities Dispatch Despite claiming he was the victim of a “witch hunt,” the proprietor of a wholesale meat business in Coquitlam was found to have violated the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act. In May 2023, Shams Halal Meat hired Ehsan Moghaddaszadeh Kermani on a two-yea...