In 2019, Oleksandr Zahrebelnyn came to Canada from Ukraine on a work permit and opened a meat processing plant in North Bay with the financial backing of the Canadian and Ontario governments.
The entrepreneur has spent more than six years in the country, receiving multiple renewals of his visas and work authorization. But now immigration officials have told him that he and his family should be barred from Canada because he had previously worked for the main Ukrainian security agency.
