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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
The case likely would have went to a human rights tribunal who would have made a decision on settlement. The government could have challenged that decision in the Supreme Court. Given that the Supreme Court had already ruled in his favour on the charge that his rights were violated it is doubtful they would not have upheld the human rights commission's decision on settlement.
There is no chance the government wasn't going to have to pay Khadr a settlement.
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But they didn't explore it, like I said the Supreme Court stated that any compensation decision was up to the government.
The whole thing about him being able to receive 20 million is just spin, you could also believe that the government who actually have competent lawyers could have argued to far less then 10 million bucks.
But again, I'm arguing about how the government handled the file in a secretive manner and then designed it so that it could get around the US courts ruling on compensation to Speers widow and the Sergeant who lost an eye.
There's a reason why the Liberals timed this for Parliament to be out of session and the Prime Minster was out of town. But I believe that there have to be questions asked about the governments handling of this file.