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Keen demoted, not dismissed, may have been legal, says law expert

Natural Resources Department says the government had the right to remove Linda Keen under the Nuclear Safety Act

The Conservative government’s removal of Ms. Keen as president and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission this month may have been within legal boundaries of the Nuclear Safety Act because she was "demoted," not fired, from the commission tribunal, says Lorne Sossin, a law and publi...

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