Judge won’t reinstate CRTC commissioner pending his legal fight over firing
TORONTO — A former commissioner of Canada’s broadcast regulator has lost his bid for reinstatement pending a court fight over his firing.
In a decision Friday, Federal Court Judge Anne Mactavish ruled against Raj Shoan’s request, saying he has failed to show he would suffer irreparable harm in the interim if his injunction request failed.
The federal government terminated Shoan’s five-year appointment as a commissioner to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for cause in June amid concerns over his conduct.
Among other things, the government suggested Shoan had disparaged the commission and its chairman in public, and had made unfounded accusations of unethical conduct or conflicts of interest on commission.