Usman Shahsaeed and 13358810 Canada Inc. keep their registrations on consent, with a two-year bar on any dealer class but wholesaler and on owning another dealer

Usman Shahsaeed and 13358810 Canada Inc., the dealer of which he is sole director, will keep their registrations, but for two years Shahsaeed cannot apply for any dealer class other than wholesaler or own or direct another dealer. Those are the first two of 22 terms in a consent order of the Licence Appeal Tribunal, Shahsaeed v. Registrar, Motor Vehicle Dealers Act, 2002, 2026 ONLAT MVDA 17932. Vice-Chair Jeffery Campbell dated the order August 31, 2026 and it was released September 1. OMVIC’s enforcement table records the outcome for both appellants as “Conditions of Registration - No Hearing”.

What the Registrar had proposed

On October 18, 2025, the Registrar issued a notice of proposal to revoke Shahsaeed’s registration as a salesperson and 13358810’s registration as a dealer. The order describes the grounds as “generally” past conduct: Shahsaeed’s conduct as a salesperson and as the company’s sole director, said to give reasonable grounds for belief that the business would not be carried on in accordance with the law and with integrity and honesty, under s. 6(1)(a)(ii) and s. 6(1)(d)(iii) of the MVDA ([1] and [2]).

The order says no more than that about the conduct. No agreed statement of facts is attached, and the order records no admission and no finding. Shahsaeed signed the terms on August 24, 2026 and the Registrar on August 28. Both sides waived a hearing under s. 4.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, and the Vice-Chair disposed of the appeal on those terms ([3] to [5]). The terms are made under s. 6(2) of the MVDA, which makes a registration subject to the conditions a registrant consents to or the Tribunal orders.

Two years in the wholesaler class

Terms 1 and 2 run for two years from the date of the order. Shahsaeed may not:

• apply for registration as a motor vehicle dealer in any class other than wholesaler, or apply to change the class of an existing registration to anything other than wholesaler, whether personally or through any company or other entity he owns, directs or controls (term 1); or
• be an owner, partner, shareholder, director, officer or controlling mind of any motor vehicle dealer other than 13358810 Canada Inc., directly or indirectly (term 2).

A wholesaler, under s. 21 of O. Reg. 333/08, may trade only with other registered dealers, buy from the Crown or from persons the Act exempts, and sell at certain auctions to registered buyers in other jurisdictions. Term 9 adds that “nothing in these Terms and Conditions authorizes the Registrant to trade with consumers in respect of any wholesale class registration.” In August 2026 the Ontario Court of Justice convicted Matthew Motiey, operating as European Autohaus Toronto, on three counts of a wholesale dealer acting out of class under s. 21.

The order does not stop Shahsaeed from working as a salesperson. Term 6 assumes he will have sponsoring dealers: he must give each one a copy of the terms and get its written acknowledgement.

Paperwork duties on financing

Terms 10 to 15 are about what Shahsaeed signs and sends to lenders, with no time limit stated:

• He may not sign, submit or forward to a lender or anyone else a financing application, bill of sale, warranty contract, insurance document or other supporting document he knows or ought to know is false or misleading, in whatever capacity he signs, including as witness or co-signatory (term 10).
• Before signing any trade or financing document for a consumer, he must see and keep a copy of the consumer’s valid government-issued photo identification (term 11), and keep a copy of every material document received from or about the consumer before it goes to anyone else (term 12).
• He may not submit, approve or authorize a financing application without personally checking that any proof of income or employment matches the application and verifying any insurance document with the named insurer first (term 13).
• Any paid arrangement with a third party who sources financing leads must be disclosed in full to the dealer principal first, and a referral from someone he has a personal, financial or outside professional relationship with must be disclosed in writing before the trade is completed (terms 14 and 15).

Term 7 records his acknowledgement that “trade” is not limited to signing contracts. It includes attending auctions and working in roles such as sales manager, finance and insurance manager or general manager.

Non-association, education and reporting

For two years, term 16 bars Shahsaeed from working at the same dealer as, supervising or being supervised by two registrants the order names, and from any business, referral or lead-sharing arrangement with them. The order says nothing about either of them beyond their names and registration numbers.

He must enrol at his own cost in the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Key Elements Course and pass it with at least 80 per cent within 90 days of signing the terms (terms 17 and 18). He must tell the Registrar in writing within five business days of a criminal charge, a civil suit connected to the motor vehicle business, an insolvency proceeding or a regulatory proceeding against him (term 4). He must also notify OMVIC in writing within five business days of any complaint, allegation or investigation by a lender, insurer, consumer, co-signer, law enforcement agency or regulator about a transaction connected to him (term 5), and of any judgment or court order he fails to comply with when it comes due (term 19).

Term 22 keeps the Registrar’s hand free: she may take further action, including a new proposal to suspend or revoke, on matters of honesty and integrity, financial responsibility or compliance with the terms. The Patvivi Inc. and Patrick Nwandu consent order carried the same kind of reservation. The two-year periods in terms 1, 2 and 16 all run from the date of the consent order.