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Originally Posted by Resurrection
We should be careful not to conflate his having a rough childhood and being a child soldier with getting a pay out.
His pay out was us allowing the Americans to torture him for a decade and ignore his basic human rights. Who cares he had a ####ty upbringing. The point is that our country doesn't get to decide to let one of our own be locked away without due process and waterboarded for ten years. Period.
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Not quite. The Canadians didn't "allow" the Americans to torture him for 10 years. The Americans were torturing him. Jesus himself could have asked the President nicely to stop and they wouldn't.
Where Canada is culpable is that Canadian officials came in and obtained evidence from him under these conditions (sleep deprivation, waterboarding, etc), then they shared that information. They should have come to provide consular services like they do for other Canadians who are detained in prisons.
Whether that breach is worth $10.5 million is up for debate.