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Unfortunately – like the cresting flood waters out west that predictably make their way from one community to another – the mediation backlog, now corrected, has led to a bulge in the number of arbitrations that require adjudication. What was once a mediation backlog is fast on the way to becoming an arbitration backlog. I have just received a bulletin from FSCO which says that FSCO has “experienced an unprecedented increase in the number of dispute resolution applications”. The bulletin itself acknowledges that clearing up the mediation backlog of over 30,000 file “has resulted in an unprecedented volume of open arbitration files”. http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/is-a-fsco-arbitration-backlog-developing-25357/