ONTARIO, CANADA – A police investigation is currently underway into a manager at a Tim Hortons franchise in Ontario who allegedly tried to get a teenage worker to marry her 25-year-old brother in order to get him Canadian Permanent Residency (PR).
Screenshots of chats obtained by the Toronto Sun showed the female manager asking the 17-year-old employee for sex, which shocked everyone. The manager started the conversation by asking the adolescent, “Do you want an Indian boyfriend?”
When the employee asked how old the individual was, the boss said he was 25 and then told the truth: “My brother.” He wants a girlfriend… He needs someone to help him gain permanent residency in Canada. He can also pay you $15,000 to $20,000 if you can help him with it.
The Incident Comes to Light
After the teenage girl’s uncle, Matt Monroe, stepped out and told the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) about the strange and wrong plan, it was made public.
Monroe said on Facebook that the manager was “harassing my niece to marry her brother, who is 25 and she is underage, and offered her $20,000 to marry him.” Monroe told the Toronto Sun that the event made his niece so “devastated” that she resigned her work at the Tim Hortons in Wellington and Picton because “she no longer feels comfortable.”
Monroe has kept pushing for more than just the one manager to be held accountable. He says, “I won’t stop until it happens, and the illegal scams aimed at minors at the Tim Hortons in the county stop.”
Tim Hortons and the police do something
Tim Hortons quickly announced that the manager had been fired. A corporate spokeswoman said that even though franchisees control and run individual restaurants, the incident was “completely unacceptable.” The statement said, “The restaurant owner fired the manager involved soon after he learned about the totally unacceptable situation on his team.”
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are officially looking into the issue. Alexandre Lebel, a spokesperson for the Prince Edward OPP Detachment, said that an investigation into marriage fraud began on September 9, 2025.
Section 292 of Canada’s Criminal Code says that anyone who “procures or knowingly aids in procuring a feigned marriage between themselves and another person” is guilty of an indictable offence and could go to jail for up to five years.