CityNews reporter Shauna Hunt was covering a Toronto FC soccer match Sunday in Toronto when a heckler yelled a lewd phrase during her live broadcast. The phrase is popularly abbreviated to the acronym "FHRITP" to avoid uttering the foul words. Shauna Hunt was not going to let this guy get away with it - and neither was his employer, Hydro One. The company fired Shauna Hunt's heckler from his $90,000 job. Here's why that's legal.

The video above captured the confrontation between Shauna Hunt and the heckler, Shawn Simoes. It soon went viral.

Hunt asked Shawn Simoes, and the others who were shouting "FHRITP" on air, "Why would you want to do something like that?"

"It's a disgusting thing to say," she said. "It's degrading to women."

"I don't care, it's f***ing hilarious," Simoes said.

She later added, "When you talk into my microphone and say that into my camera to viewers at the station I work at, it's disrespectful and degrading to me."

When Hunt asked what his mother would think if she saw him shouting that phrase on television, Simoes retorted that "My mom would die laughing eventually."

Well now the jokes on him, because Hydro One fired him from his assistant network management engineer job, where he made about $90,000 in U.S. dollars.

Simoes is listed on the Public Sector Salary Disclosure as having drawn a salary of $106,510.60 and $709.10 in taxable benefits in 2014 (in Canadian dollars).

"Hydro One is taking steps to terminate the employee involved for violating our Code of Conduct," the company said in a statement. "Respect for all people is engrained in the Code of Conduct and in our Core Values and we are committed to a work environment where discrimination or harassment of any type is met with zero tolerance."

According to Vancouver lawyer Tony Wilson, author of the book Manage Your Online Reputation, Hydro One does reserve the right to have Shauna Hunt's heckler fired.

"What people always seem to forget is you can fire anyone for anything. The issue is cause or no cause," he explained, according to CBC. "The big problem with this guy is who is going to hire him? What sort of corporation is going to hire a guy that says something like this to a reporter? He could just as easily say something like that to someone in the workplace. He's got that around his neck for the rest of his professional career. That's worse than any criminal sanction that he could ever get."

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which owns Toronto FC, said earlier Tuesday that it would ban fans who uttered the phrase in the CityNews video.