A New Brunswick shellfish processing plant wants the federal court to intervene after it was ordered to pay an historic $1 million fine and banned from using Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program for 10 years over how it treated its foreign workers.
Bolero Shellfish Processing wants federal court to quash decision
Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc. contends Employment and Social Development Canada ‘unreasonably delayed’ its investigation and decision, prejudicing the company’s ability to respond to the allegations. (René Landry/Radio-Canada)
A New Brunswick shellfish processing plant wants the federal court to intervene after it was ordered to pay an historic $1 million fine and banned from using Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program for 10 years because of how it treated its foreign workers.
Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc., based in Saint-Simon, on the Acadian Peninsula, has filed an application for leave to commence a judicial review.
In the document, the company argues, among other things, that the penalties imposed by Employment and Social Development Canada have caused it to “suffer considerable stigma akin to a finding of guilt in a criminal proceeding without any right to a trial or a hearing.”
“These measures go well beyond a mere regulatory response and have the effect of significantly damaging the company’s reputation and operations, and are grossly disproportionate to the … allegations.”
In addition, the federal inspection process took more than four years, which Bolero argues prejudiced its ability to respond to the allegations.
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