As of June, the IAP had resolved 37,792 claims of abuse by survivors of Indian residential schools and paid out $3.1 billion, an average payment of $11,435. Perell will be represented by Brian Gover, counsel for the supervising courts. Shapiro is required to report four times a year to the supervising courts, and it is here that Perell finds Shapiro most wanting. Court of Appeal cases, Perell says, Shapiro “is weighing in against” a residential school survivor and claimant. The residential schools settlement agreement is supposed to have an end date — finality — and Shapiro was criticized earlier this year by the western administrative judge, Brenda Brown of the B.C.

Source: National Post September 11, 2018 23:48 UTC