Lakeland College: Alberta Companies

Esl Students Dept: Police say Kihew Energy Services Ltd. recruited welders and machinists in a Polish newspaper and website and brought them to Alberta beginning in December 2005. The company made arrangements with a Lakeland College employee to send letters to Canada Immigration confirming the workers as welding and ESL students, according to Calgary Herald. The workers were told to sign a contract threatening a $25,000 fine and deportation for breaching the arrangement, instructed not to discuss their wages and forced to live with up to nine workers at a time in three-bedroom apartments and rCMP have charged the directors of an Alberta company, including a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, in a $1-million scam that brought in 60 foreign workers as students, then hired them out to northern Alberta companies. Kihew then subcontracted the workers to several northern Alberta companies, pocketing over $1 million of their wages in just six months. As reported in the news.
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