Muskoka Recovery Rehab Class Action

The Claims

Muskoka Recovery is marketed as a place for luxury ‘rehabilitation and sober living’ providing ‘the highest level of care, support, and comfort’, including 24/7 medical care, detoxification and addiction treatment under the supervision of qualified professionals. This proposed class action, filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and brought against Muskoka Recovery, Detox, Rehab, Addiction, and Mental Health Treatment Centre, their owners, directors, and certain former staff, alleges fraudulent misrepresentation, negligence, breach of contract, and other claims against the Defendants.

The proposed class action alleges that the Defendants have systemically failed to provide Class Members with treatment for their mental health, addiction, and substance use disorders.

It is further alleged that the Defendants misrepresented the nature of their services, induced Class Members to pay between $20,000 to $150,000 to attend Muskoka Recovery, and exposed the Class Members to an unsafe environment which exacerbated their mental health challenges and caused them harm. It is alleged that certain staff on site were not licensed professionals qualified to provide the treatment they offered, and that, throughout the class period, the Defendants deliberately and systemically misled, lured, financially exploited, abused, and endangered these vulnerable patients seeking treatment at the facility.

The Class

All persons who were patients at Muskoka Recovery from its inception to the present (the ‘Class’ and ‘Class Members’) and all persons who on account of a personal relationship to a Class Member are entitled to assert a derivative claim for damages pursuant to section 61(1) of the Family Law Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.F.3, as amended and comparable provincial and territorial legislation (the ‘Family Class’ or ‘Family Class Members’).

Updates

On March 17, 2025, the class action was commenced.
November 2, 2026: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved the partial dismissal of the action against the Defendant Corradina Canonaco, a former director and 50% shareholder of Muskoka Recovery Inc. and a director and shareholder of 2855531 Ontario Inc. The dismissal of the claim against Coradina Canonaco follows an extensive investigation by Rochon Genova, which indicated that Ms. Canonaco was not involved in the day-to-day operation of Muskoka Recovery and that the Plaintiffs’ claims against her would be unlikely to succeed. As a result of the dismissal of the action against Ms. Canonaco, no claims against her will be advanced in this proposed class action. You should seek legal advice if you believe you may have a claim against Ms. Canonaco. Any limitation period applicable to claims advanced in the proposed class action will begin to run again as of November 2, 2026. The action will continue against Ewa Ricci, Ralph Canonaco, Damien Delaney and Christine Iskandar, and, subject to the stay against the corporate defendants being lifted, Muskoka Recovery Inc. and 2855531 Ontario Inc. The Plaintiffs’ Motion for Certification is scheduled to be heard from June 1-4 and 7-8, 2027. A further update will be provided as soon as possible following a determination on that motion.