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Relocation stipends are pretty much always paid contingent on signing an agreement that if your employment ceases within X timeframe (no matter the cause) then you have to pay it back, or at least part of it. If an employee has a problem agreeing to such a provision, then they simply don't get the stipend and they have to relocate on their own dime.

If you owe any money would depend on the exact wording of whatever agreement was signed. It probably says "for any reason."

What it says on a contract does not make it enforceable. Original question is asking "if it is enforceable".

It's probably enforceable in the sense that you'll probably spend more money fighting it than just negotiating some settlement if the company is serious about clawing it back.

Don't know about Canada. In the US employers rarely (but not never) attempt to enforce when someone is laid off or fired not-for-cause.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

Could be that the candidate starts with a contract for a years so being fired in this time would mean it is not without cause.