Eagle Motor Group: a receivership over 61 vehicles and nothing more

On April 24, 2026, Don McWilliams, a bailiff retained by Daimler Truck Financial Services Canada Corporation, went looking for trucks. His affidavit starts with 9601 Highway 50 in Woodbridge, which he describes as the primary location for North Wolf Construction Inc. and the aggregate operation for the debtors and related entities, a group he calls, collectively, the Eagle Motor Group. It also covers three yards on Cadetta Road in Brampton, where he recorded seven of the vehicles Daimler had leased to the debtors by serial number, found several trucks "blocked in at the rear of the property, and tightly parked," and, he swears, was forcefully removed from one yard by the debtors' employees and verbally threatened. Everywhere he went he saw vehicles parked and unused and others "in various degrees of disassembly," and nowhere a Daimler vehicle that was operable, per the Affidavit of Don McWilliams, July 6, 2026, paras. 2–10, 12.

Daimler says the trucks are its own. Each of the nine leases behind them, the affidavit of Daimler fleet analyst Ali Daamsa says, provides that ownership and title stay with Daimler at all times, and the parties intend each to be a true lease. On July 21, 2026, Justice Myers of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) appointed Deloitte Restructuring Inc. receiver over 61 of the leased vehicles and their proceeds, on an application in which Daimler sought a receiver over "only the Outstanding Vehicles and nothing more," per the Order (appointing Receiver), July 21, 2026, para. 2 and Sched. "A" and the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 15, 60.

Seventy-five units on nine leases

The lessees are two Ontario companies with registered offices at the same Mississauga address and, per their corporate profiles, the same sole officer and director, Balbir Opal. 2734247 Ontario Limited was incorporated on December 27, 2019, and 1295503 Ontario Inc. on May 13, 1998. Between 2020 and 2022 they signed nine substantively identical leases with Daimler for 75 commercial trucks and trailers: 57 tractors and 18 trailers, plus six trailer refrigeration attachments. The newer company took Freightliner and Western Star tractors and CIMC refrigerated trailers; the older one took Freightliner Coronados and twelve Stargate dump trailers, per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 3, 8–9, 12, 47 and Exs. "A", "B". In a receivership application of its own, exhibited to Daimler's affidavit, Royal Bank of Canada describes 1295503 Ontario as a general freight trucker that "operates a fleet of freight trucks and trailers that service customers across North America," per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, Ex. "L", pp. 1317–1318.

Each lease ran for 60 months. Together they called for $13,199,508.60 in lease payments, $219,991.81 a month, with an option at the end to buy the vehicles for residual values totalling $2,981,641.90. A lessee that did not buy had to return the vehicles at its own expense and pay the deficiency if Daimler sold one for less than its residual value. The two lessees guaranteed each other, and three more guarantors stand behind both: Mr. Opal; North Wolf Construction Inc., registered in Guelph; and Eagle Motor Group Ltd., an Alberta company called Eagle Motor Freight Inc. until October 8, 2020, per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 10–11, 14–17, 21–22.

Other creditors are on the registries too: Mann Tire Ltd. has registered liens under Ontario's Repair and Storage Liens Act against 73 of the leased vehicles, a British Columbia repairer registered a repair lien against one, and the two Paccar Financial companies registered against six of them in Alberta in April 2022, before Daimler's own Alberta registrations. The Bank of Nova Scotia, Roynat Inc., Canadian Western Bank Leasing Inc. and BVD Capital Corporation, among others, hold registrations over all collateral classifications against one lessee or the other, per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 23–24, 30.

Missed payments, and the search for the trucks

Beginning in July 2025, the affidavit says, each lessee "consistently and repeatedly failed" to make its monthly payments; it gives no account from the lessees of why. Between November 18, 2025 and April 27, 2026, Daimler sent demands and served notices of intention to enforce security under s. 244 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. The last payments it received were $6,389.44 from 2734247 Ontario on March 1, 2026 and $20,200.90 from 1295503 Ontario on March 22, each, the affidavit says, the monthly payment on one lease. By June 8, four leases had matured, bringing their residual values due, and the payout balance across all nine stood at $3,561,951.01 before costs, fees and expenses. The largest, $821,220.92, was on the dump-trailer lease, per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 4–5, 28, 42–43, 48.

Once the notice periods ran out, Daimler's bailiffs seized seven vehicles, and Daimler has registered partial discharges against nine as a result of payouts by the lessees or enforcement. It counts 62 still outstanding, "which are in the possession of third parties." Ritchie Bros. reported on five of the seized units, among them a Freightliner Coronado with an illegible serial number, an engine that could not be started and no shifter ("looks like truck was changed from manual to automatic"), and a 2021 Freightliner in "poor overall condition for age." Two seized vehicles had been abandoned at a dealership, per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 6, 45–47, 55–56.

Mr. McWilliams swears that on April 24 he also spoke with the lessees' principal, who said he was not going to surrender any property, denied the bailiff access to all locations operated by the debtors' company, and said that should anyone attend those locations to attempt to seize, "bad things will happen to them" and "there will be damage to vehicles." He adds that he overheard third parties say there is a shop where units are being "parted out," per the Affidavit of Don McWilliams, July 6, 2026, paras. 11–12. His email to Daimler that night, reporting the same conversation, also records the principal's claim that "Arrangements have been made between his lawyer and Daimler Truck," per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, Ex. "T", p. 1669.

On May 21 a recovery agent with a second bailiff firm wrote an email titled "Eagle Motors." It calls 9601 Highway 50 "their yard," the only location where the bailiffs had successfully seized any units, and continues: "The issue we keep running into is that they remove the VIN plates from the units and, of course, all attached licence plates come back as unattached. They definitely know what they are doing when it comes to concealing equipment." Daimler says it is concerned that the lessees "and possibly others may have commenced dismantling the Outstanding Vehicles to sell them for parts," and says it has "serious concerns" about the "re-vinning" of vehicles and "the steps being taken by the Debtors to obstruct and frustrate Daimler's efforts to repossess the Vehicles," per the Affidavit of Ali Daamsa, July 2, 2026, paras. 49, 52–53, 57. These are Daimler's allegations and its bailiffs' accounts. The order that followed makes no findings on them.