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Justice Minister Peter MacKay has decided Marc Nadon won’t have to repay any of the salary he earned as a Supreme Court of Canada justice before being declared ineligible to sit on the high court.

The Supreme Court’s registrar, who oversees payments to judges, reviewed the rules around salaries ever since March when the top court nullified Nadon’s appointment. The ruling meant Nadon went back to being a semi-retired judge on the Federal Court of Appeal.

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MacKay didn’t take long to make a decision. In a statement, a spokeswoman for MacKay said the government won’t make Nadon repay any part of his Supreme Court salary.

“The government won’t be retroactively changing Judge Nadon’s pay,” Mary Ann Dewey-Plante said in an email.

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The Supreme Court rejected Nadon’s appointment in a landmark ruling in March.

The Supreme Court Act requires that nominees for one of Quebec’s three seats on the high court be either a member of the provincial bar, a member of the province’s Superior Court or a judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal. The top court said a Supreme Court nominee from the province had to be a current member of any of those bodies, which Nadon was not.