By Cristin Schmitz ( December 24, 2021, 9:27 AM EST) -- An independent pay commission says the indexed, approximately half-million-dollar pay package enjoyed by Canada’s 1,193 federally appointed trial and appellate court judges remains “adequate” to attract “outstanding” lawyers to the federal benches — and thus does not require a boost, apart from the mandatory annual indexing which this year raised the judges’ salary by 6.6 per cent....