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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

But they didn't explore it, like I said the Supreme Court stated that any compensation decision was up to the government.

The Canadian human rights human rights commission is a government agency.

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.

I'm sure those same competent lawyers were advising them every step of the way.

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.

The government likely would have had to hold a trial to determine whether Khadr was in fact guilty of killing Sergeant Speers. The biggest factor in all of this that people are continuing to ignore is the fact that the only "proof" the military court had against Khadr was a confession made after 8 years of torture which he admitted later was made to get out of Guantanamo Bay. Khadr also "confessed" to his interrogators other facts which were later proven to be false, this gives his explanation some credibility. Call him a terrorist, jihadist, unlawful combatant or whatever else you'd like, the fact of the matter is whether or not he actually killed Sergeant Speers is still very much in question. The due diligence the government would have had to go through and the likely challenge of the US courts' ruling would have cost tax payers even more money and in all likelihood would not have resulted in any money going to the deceased's family.

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.

Do you really believe that this won't be brought up ever again due to timing? I'm sure Trudeau and the liberals were well aware of the potential fallout from this, I can see a lot of reasons for why they handled it the way they did and why it made sense in an effort to save taxpayers additional costs, which is why I believe they simply made the best of a bad situation.

In the end would people have been happier to have had the government fight this thing to the bitter end, only to have tax payers pay an additional $10M plus legal costs, then have the money be taken from the plaintiff through another costly legal process and given to the family of his alleged victim whom he may or may not have killed?