'An independent labour investigator has upheld harassment complaints against the head of Canada’s premier human rights adjudication agency, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.

The rulings that Shirish Chotalia, the Conservative-appointed chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, harassed two subordinates and engaged in “baffling, if not bizarre” behaviour is the latest twist in a series of upheavals since the Edmonton lawyer took charge of the agency on Sept. 9. 2009.

Two more harassment complaints are pending against Ms. Chotalia, a human rights lawyer who last year was accused by her employees of creating a workplace that had deteriorated “to the point of toxicity.”'

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