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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You are still stuck on the wrong issue.
Whether or not the Americans would have turned him over is irrelevant. Whether you consider him a liar more than a victim is irrelevant. Whether his father was a nut case is irrelevant.
From the moment Canadian officials had access to Khadr and discovered he was being tortured, they - and our government - had a Charter obligation to fight for the protection of his rights. Instead, they became complicit in his torture and used it to their own advantage. There is not a single appeal to emotion based argument you can make that overcomes this. Canadian officials violated his Charter rights and three successive governments failed in their duty. That is why the Canadian tax payers have to pay.
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That may well be the case but I would argue that there should not have ever been a settlement. The entire debacle should have been resolved by due process through the courts. The sad thing is that this guy continues to be a pawn of the government to this day. Pretty boy Justin wanted this to go away as quietly as possible whether it was right or not to settle.