Fillion began his career in his home town of
Chicoutimi in the late 1980s, working for CFIX-FM. Most of his reputation comes from his stint, from 1997 to 2005, as morning man with radio station
CHOI-FM in Quebec City,
Quebec, Canada. However, his very controversial and
politically incorrect comments, combined with those of
André Arthur, resulted in the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) refusing to renew the station's licence in July 2004. The station and license were bought by
RNC Media in June 2007 without interruption to its broadcasting. He was fired on March 17, 2005, in the fallout of the trial from Sophie Chiasson against him and his then-employer. The judgement was particularly severe, with the judge noting that the comments made by Jeff Fillion regarding Chiasson were "sexist, mean, incited hatred, were without cause, wounding and injurious. These comments are a threat to the dignity and honour of human kind in general and particularly to Miss Chiasson."The participants in the radio show (Fillion and gang) referred to the plaintiff as "a consummate liar," "a cat in heat," as well as "a leech on (hockey player)
Alexandre Daigle," "an airhead" and repeatedly suggested Chiasson used sex to get jobs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070615131340/http://tomifobia.com/black/freedom_ofspeech.shtml Miss Chiasson was awarded $340,000 CAD in punitive damages. . After numerous rumours to the effect that he would be hired by other radio stations in the Quebec City market (which turned out to be unfounded) or by a
satellite radio group, he announced his intention of launching a subscription-only
Internet radio service. RadioPirate.com was launched on March 17, 2006, exactly a year after he was fired by CHOI-FM. His radio show was also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, channel 156 until his contract was nullified on August 11, 2011 by the newly merged
Sirius XM Canada. His internet station still lives today and a free light version is also available. Fillion was hired by Bell Media and was back on the air beginning March 3, 2014 with his show "Jeff Fillion" on NRJ 98.9, a Quebec City radio station. On April 19, 2016, Fillion was suspended indefinitely by
Bell Media for a tweet that he posted about an interview that
Alexandre Taillefer had with
Guy A. Lepage on the French Canadian show
Tout le monde en parle (Quebec). The tweet linked to an article which summarized the interview. The only other content of the tweet was two identical emoji faces which Fillion included, seemingly because they resemble Taillefer. Fillion's tweet was interpreted by his opponents as trying to ridicule Taillefer who was blaming the company
Amazon.com for the suicide of his son. Although he quickly deleted his tweet, Fillion was suspended by Bell Media after Taillefer, in an interview with
Paul Arcand, publicly questioned the fact that Bell Media was still employing him. On April 20, 2016, Bell Media announced that Fillion was not an employee of the company anymore. ==Political and social views==