Police investigating Tim Hortons manager over alleged teen marriage scheme

Police officers are investigating after a 17-year-old employee revealed that her manager at a Tim Hortons allegedly offered to pay up to $20,000 for the girl to marry her adult brother.

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Ontario Provincial Police officers are investigating after a 17-year-old employee revealed that her manager at a Tim Hortons in Picton, Ont., allegedly offered to pay up to $20,000 for the girl to marry her adult brother to secure a path to permanent residency.

As first reported by the Toronto Sun, police began investigating after the manager allegedly solicited her employee to marry a 25-year-old Indian man to bypass proper immigration channels.

Alexandre Lebel, a spokesman for the Prince Edward OPP Detachment, confirmed with True North that the police entered into a marriage fraud investigation on September 9, 2025, and that the investigation is ongoing.

Section 292 of the Criminal Code states that “every person who procures or knowingly aids in procuring a feigned marriage between himself and another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.”

Lebel also said that other external partners, such as the Canadian Border Services Agency, have been advised of the incident. The CBSA was not immediately available for comment or to provide an update.

The investigation began after Matt Monroe, the uncle of the young girl who quit her job following the incident, reported the incident to the OPP.

Monroe wrote a post on Facebook expressing that he will no longer be going to the Tim Hortons in Picton and Wellington, noting that his niece is underage, and that the manager’s request constituted alleged “immigration fraud.”

“When the other managers were informed, they laughed it off and made jokes about it. Police are investigating. Immigration has been called, and the head office of Tim Hortons is investigating,” Monroe said in the post. “This is disturbing that people are ok with targeting minors and fraud, and I’m making this very clear, I’m pushing for all the managers to be fired, and I will not stop till it happens, and the illegal scams targeting minors at the Tim Hortons in the county are stopped.”

Monroe later added an edit to the post in response to the backlash he received.

“I made this post to spread awareness and to protect not only my 17-year-old niece but other girls and women who had the same experience at this Tim Hortons location,” the post reads. “In no way was this meant to be about race…they are targeting minors, which is what happened to my niece.”

Under the post, Monroe’s niece posted screenshots of the encounter that took place on Snapchat.

“Do you have boyfriend?” the manager said.

“No why?” the young girl said.

The manager continues asking, “You want Indian boyfriend?”

When the employee asked how old the person was, the manager informed her that he was 25. The girl replied, “I’m only 17.”

After hearing her age, the manager continued saying it was her brother, that he’s “looking for girlfriend” and that “he need someone to get permanent residency in Canada” before saying that he would pay her $15,000 to $20,000 to do it.

“Tim Hortons restaurants are owned and operated by franchisees who independently manage their own labour for their restaurants,” a spokesperson for Tim Hortons told True North. “The restaurant owner terminated the manager involved soon after he became aware of the completely unacceptable situation on his team.”

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner called the incident yet another Liberal government failure in a post on X on Sunday.

“The Liberals did this. Broken immigration system, plus lax enforcement of laws, plus catch-and-release bail policies equal brazen, disgusting cases like the one in this story,” Rempel Garner said in the post. “Enough.”