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Date: 20161122


Docket: A-62-16

Citation: 2016 FCA 295

[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]

CORAM:

TRUDEL J.A.

SCOTT J.A.

BOIVIN J.A.

 

 

BETWEEN:

PHILIPPE ERNEST D’AOUST

Applicant

and

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Respondent

Heard at Ottawa, Ontario, on November 22, 2016.

Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on November 22, 2016.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:

TRUDEL J.A.

 


Date: 20161122


Docket: A-62-16

Citation: 2016 FCA 295

CORAM:

TRUDEL J.A.

SCOTT J.A.

BOIVIN J.A.

 

 

BETWEEN:

PHILIPPE ERNEST D’AOUST

Applicant

and

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Respondent

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

(Delivered from the Bench at Ottawa, Ontario, on November 22, 2016.)

TRUDEL J.A.

[1]  The applicant has not persuaded us that the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board’s decision was unreasonable because, among other things, it was based on the assessment of evidence filed by witnesses who had allegedly perjured themselves.

[2]  The adjudicator did not accept the allegations of the employer’s bad faith or conspiracy against the applicant. After having weighed all the evidence, the adjudicator preferred the employer’s evidence and found that the applicant’s evidence had no merit in the light of the facts entered into evidence and accepted by him.

[3]  We are of the opinion that, on the basis of the evidence in the record, the adjudicator correctly found that the applicant had lost his position, during his probationary period, for valid reasons related to his behaviour in the exercise of his employment within the public service.

[4]  The adjudicator was therefore justified in declining to exercise jurisdiction and closing the applicant’s case.

[5]  Consequently, the application for judicial review is dismissed.

“Johanne Trudel”

J.A.

Certified true translation

Francois Brunet, Revisor


FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

SOLICITORS OF RECORD


Docket:

A-62-16

STYLE OF CAUSE:

PHILIPPE ERNEST D’AOUST v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

 

 

PLACE OF HEARING:

Ottawa, Ontario

 

DATE OF HEARING:

November 22, 2016

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:

TRUDEL J.A.

SCOTT J.A.

BOIVIN J.A.

 

DELIVERED FROM THE BENCH BY:

TRUDEL J.A.

 

APPEARANCES:

Philippe Ernest D’Aoust

Self-Represented

 

For the applicant

 

Michel Girard

 

For the respondent

 

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

William F. Pentney

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

Ottawa, Ontario

 

For the respondent

 

 

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