Alexander Gay is a lawyer who served as counsel for the Attorney General of Canada prior to the 2015 court case between the Corporation of Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential School Settlement (CCEPIRSS) and the Government of Canada (Fontaine v Saskatchewan (Attorney General), 205 SKQB 220). At the time, Gay was a senior advisor for Public Works. Gay worked on the 2013 Request for Direction in which Canada sought clarity on the implementation of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Specifically, Canada questioned the Catholic Corporation’s deduction of its legal fees from its payments.In April 2014, Gay cross-examined Pierre-L. Baribeau, a lawyer and the official representative of CCEPIRSS, and in May that year Gay submitted his own affidavit. Gay also corresponded with Gordon J. Kuski, a lawyer for CCEPIRSS, and it was through Gay and Kuski’s negotiations that CCEPIRSS came to contend that a new settlement agreement between Canada and CCEPIRSS had been reached. In 2015, the court found in favour of CCEPIRSS, and the Catholic entities were absolved from any further legal or financial obligations under the 2006 Settlement Agreement. As of 2021, Gay was a Senior Counsel at the Department of Justice and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa (Faculty of Law).