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You implied it when you said he didn't deserve the money he received as a result of it.
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I never implied that but to your credit you asked for clarification and I gave it to you. Is that enough?
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The legal advisors the government had working this case obviously must have felt there was a high probability of either the damages awarded would be more than $10M or that a combination of the damages and the litigation costs would be. Right or wrong they made the financially sensible route. Take the politics out of the equation, this is a legal matter, if the liberals made this decision based on the legal advice they were given then it was the right call.
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A loss-cutting settlement might make eminent sense, but the whirlwind was allowed to clatter along all week without so much as a proper media briefing, an official statement, a formal explanation or even a single honest and candid answer—not even when the question was put directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a press conference in Ireland.
Absurdly, neither the payout amount nor the wording of the apology were mentioned Friday, owing to the deal’s confidentiality provisos.
Donald Trump’s White House had been “pre-informed” about the settlement, but all week Canadians have been obliged to rely on assumptions, unnamed sources and conjecture, drawing from all the usual reservoirs of prejudice and partisan bias in speculation about the political considerations that went into the deal and the political embarrassments it was intended to avoid.
An all-party apology would seem unlikely in Khadr’s case, especially in the way developments have unfolded this week. Opposition leader Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are not in a very forgiving or apologetic mood. Not every MP in the Liberal caucus is happy about the way this has come together, either.
This is not the sort of thing that just blows over and fades away.
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-s...ng-omar-khadr/
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As for having the elected officials pay for the damages, that's not how the system works and you are smart enough to know that.
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Excuse me? I'm well aware of how the system works. I merely made a suggestion/opinion that elected officals should pay.