Hiring temporary foreign workers
Incorporate your Huntingdon business from $999, government fees included. Suited to farms hiring temporary foreign workers. Fully online.
Agriculture and border trade in southwest Montérégie
Complete legal filings
Each incorporation includes all legal filings required to create a compliant and operational corporation from day one.
Share capital structure
Depending on the option selected, your share capital structure is prepared in a simple or advanced format to support the future evolution of your business.
Digital minute book
All corporate documents are delivered in a digital minute book, ready for electronic signature and secure record keeping.
Professional validation
Documents are prepared according to established legal standards and reviewed before delivery.
Human support
Our team supports you throughout the process and provides guidance when decisions need to be made, without unnecessary complexity.
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Build your company in Quebec or federally with a strong legal structure from day one.
Keep your company’s annual filings up to date and maintain compliance of your corporate minute book.
Access professional legal templates to structure relationships with your employees, partners, and suppliers.
By opening a NBC business account.
A guided process, from information gathering to final document delivery.
Each step is designed to ensure compliance and legal consistency.
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Huntingdon: intensive market gardening near the border
Huntingdon sits at the heart of an intensive market gardening area, a few kilometres from the American border. Vegetable crops, greenhouses, processing, transport and agricultural services make up most of the local economy.
Foreign labour, a structural reality
Market gardening here depends heavily on temporary foreign workers, recruited through regulated federal programs. Those programs impose precise employer obligations: a labour market impact assessment where required, defined working and pay conditions, compliant and inspected housing, and liability for breaches.
These programs address structured employers. They assume records, possible inspections and administrative capacity to respond. An employer failing their commitments risks penalties up to a ban on recruiting.
As a sole proprietor, those obligations and penalties target you personally. The corporation becomes the employer, clarifying the relationship and separating exposure from your assets.
Online incorporation, reviewed by lawyers
Our pricing includes government fees. See our online incorporation guide or start your incorporation.
By opening a NBC business account.
Provincial or federal for a Huntingdon business?
The provincial regime fits a Quebec farm operation. Foreign worker recruitment falls under federal programs that apply the same way to both incorporation regimes.
Housing provided to workers
Providing housing is often mandatory under these programs, with precise standards and inspections. That housing should be owned or leased in the corporation's name, not yours personally, both for liability and tax treatment.
Your obligations once incorporated
Annual updating declaration, a current minute book, a separate corporate tax return and resolutions recording major decisions.
Common questions from Huntingdon entrepreneurs
Does a corporation protect me if I breach the program? It protects your assets in most cases, but administrative penalties target the employer and can affect your ability to recruit. Compliance remains the only real protection.
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