http://www.chextv.com/2015/06/02/lakefield-area-family-faces-deportation/
Am I missing something here? They must have come to Canada on a temporary visa of some dort and then set up three businesses and are now complaining that they haven't got PR.
Can you set up businesses on TWPs?

They got turned down twice for PR. cannot figure out how people who break the rules, don't follow them or don't find out what to do, whine when they get caught. Why should they get away with it, when others go though the hoops to follow the correct procedures.

Sounds like the right decision... More power to immigration authorities!

Yes you can. We did and were provided 3yr TWPs.

It provided no route to gain PR though - that took a separate application.

The report is short on details. So they came over on TWP's and were supposed to work for an employer (other than themselves), didn't, and then set up 3 businesses while employing others? So, rather than being "tangled in red tape" (as the report put it), they actually broke the rules and are now paying the price? It will be interesting to see what happens. Letting them get away with it could be a dangerous precedent that allows others to try the same thing.

I didn't watch all of the video, just enough to hear they've been in Canada almost 8 years.

I'm not convinced that someone going to all that effort over that time will encourage others to try their luck and hope that after 8 years - plus the extra 18 months on top they might persuade the authorities to let them stay permanently.

If it works for these people (i.e. they end up getting PR), then others will be encouraged to try and they will have a precedent that they can reference should they also get into deportation proceedings. I think that's why they'll have to be turned down.

For a shorter period, maybe. What about the precedents of others refused and/or deported?

Deluded (or at least wildly optimistic), rather than encouraged, would be someone who goes through whatever processes are needed to obtain work permits, uproots the family, moves across the world with the associated upheavals, does whatever is involved in starting up and operating business, lays down new roots etc alll in the hope that after nearly 10 years they might, might, be allowed to stay because one family was, while others were not.

Just getting the time in Canada might be enough reward for some people. Some people are more desperate than others. Not all will have family but for those that do, that could be enough time to complete their kids' education. As I said, if they see an exception made for a high profile case, someone is going to try. You can argue about the numbers who will try, but someone will be encouraged.

I think what will happen in this case is that they'll come into compliance by having one or more of them get a job with an employer, go through the PR application again, get approved, and then those with the bone fide jobs leave to go back to the family businesses.

He even says on the video that he knows working for themselves is an automatic fail - why on earth then did they bother applying the 2nd time without rectifying this glaring error in judgement

No way they should get away with it just because they've got the media glossing over the facts.

How on earth have they managed to stay for so long as TFWs when they have been self employed?

Their world hasn't 'ended', because they could of course run their businesses from the UK, could they not? (Do they need a majority Canadian shareholder?)

Or sell them.

Just watched the video news report. Why did they think the rules should not apply to them? Does the arguement the guy used that they employ Canadians negate all the other immigration rules? On that basis anyone, who employs Canadians, regardless of where they're from or their background should be allowed pr status.

You'd of thought if they owned three businesses he could have afforded to go to the dentist.

And if they have to leave those Canadians will get employed by someone else.

This comes across as "i'm english & the rules don't apply to me"
If you have been refused twice then it's time to pack up and head off back to blighty, If it was as simple as employing Canadians to get around residency then everyone would be doing it or trying to, Immigration rules are there for a reason, you blew it now get ready to leave.