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Shoan challenged his dismissal in federal court. Last week, Justice Cecily Strickland ruled he was not necessarily treated fairly since he was fired before the judge threw out the harassment investigation. She determined there was no way to tell if Shoan’s dismissal was conducted with procedural fairness since cabinet did not indicate how much it based its decision on the questionable harassment investigation.

Strickland ordered cabinet to revisit its decision, though she noted “legitimate concern” over some of Shoan’s actions such as meeting with parties with applications before the CRTC.

Armed with Strickland’s decision, Shoan returned to work on Monday.

But on Thursday, cabinet fired him again. This time, it said it excluded the harassment report from its decision, according to the order in council. Instead, it dismissed him for “inappropriate contact with CRTC stakeholders and his lack of recognition and disregard for the impact of that contact on the reputation and the integrity of the CRTC.” It also cited his “refusal to respect internal CRTC processes and practices” and negative public statements about the institution.

The decision was made without a meeting between Shoan and officials at Canadian Heritage, the ministry responsible for the CRTC, Minister Melanie Joly’s spokesman confirmed in an email.