New chief adjudicator for IAP

At the end of July, Saskatoon lawyer Dan Shapiro began as the new chief adjudicator of the Independent Assessment Process, which provides compensation to former students for abuse they suffered at Indian Residential Schools. Shapiro replaced Dan Ish, who announced in February that he would be stepping down. Shapiro has been a deputy chief adjudicator for the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat since 2007. As of May 31, 2013, IRSAS had received 37,797 applications for compensation under the IAP. Of those, 21,336 cases have been resolved and close to $2 billion had been paid out in compensation by the Government of Canada.