From this reading, if you are an employer, you may be dealing with a similar situation. Here is the summary of an interesting article, published by Financial Post and written by Howard Levitt, which reports real cases of candidates lying to get a job.

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Have you ever thought about embellishing the content of your CV by listing certificates or qualifications that you don't actually have? The reality is that there are many applicants who knowingly lie, make up and add things to their CVs so they can get a job.

An employer who needs to carefully check the content and authenticity of the CV of his potential candidate, ready to be hired, could be fooled by it. In addition to hiring an unfair individual, the employer may well end up with an employee who will lack skills and who will not be able to meet the responsibilities of the position.

When the company realizes that the CV has been intentionally filled out, without a doubt, the company will want to fire the employee. For companies deceived by this scheme, is firing the employee the right thing to do?

Yes, a candidate hired on false references can be fired for just cause as demonstrated by a case of the highest court in Ontario. A man who had willfully tampered with his academic credentials, he made it up that he had a doctorate in order to get the job. As the company had hired him because of his doctorate, the court sided with the company.
However, in another case, a British Columbia man, he lied about his career path in order to get a job as a sales representative. Instead of mentioning that his business was wound up, a few years ago, he told the employer that his business was going down. He deliberately lied that since shutting down his business he had instead worked as a truck driver and security guard. Once in office, he was not able to close a single sale.

In short, once in court, the court ruled in favor of this man because the company hired him because of his skills, firing him for lying about his experience was not enough.

You should know that an employee, having been hired on false declarations, can sue a company for wrongful dismissal. Therefore, as an employer, it is best to thoroughly verify the veracity of the skills and qualifications of your future recruits in order to avoid these situations.