Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan won’t be reinstated while awaiting appeal of the order-in-council that removed him from his position, a Federal Court judge ruled Friday. According to Justice Anne Mactavish’s reasons for decision, Shoan, who asked the court for a stay of his termination until the appeal is decided, didn’t satisfy all three elements required for the temporary reinstatement. Those three elements were that there was a serious issue to be tried in the appeal, he would suffer irreparable harm in the interim, and that the balance of convenience...
OTTAWA — Last week’s decision from a Federal Court judge setting aside an investigation and decision that former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan committed workplace harassment should weigh heavily in his favour for granting a temporary reversal of his termination, the federal Appeal Court heard Tuesday. “The finding and investigation report upon which the governor-in-council’s decision was based was wholly invalidated,” Craig Stehr, Shoan’s lawyer, said during the hearing at the Ottawa courthouse. “It doesn’t matter.” On...