Khadr's payout gives cover to a Liberal scandal. Must read, National Post

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It has helped ensure that every new Muslim Canadian will be voting liberal next election. JT is going to make sure we get good number of these folks into Canada before next election.

There is no political benefit to making this payout to Kahdr. Muslims are too small in number and anyway they would not likely vote on this issue. If anything it will cost lots of votes. Decisions like this are often carefully scrutinized by party insiders.

The best thing from a political view is to have stalled or let the Kahdr's suit wind its way through the slow court system which would have likely cost much more in the end. But this would have taken the decision off of the Liberals and put it on the Court, most likely the supreme court in the end. But since the Supreme court had already ruled that Kahdr's rights had been violated it was a no win situation for the government whether Liberal or Conservative.

The amount of the compensation was set by precedent in the Maher Arar case.

Is it better to have paid out more than 10 million in compensation and legal fees now or 20-40 million later? Which decision is better if you are thinking in terms of taxpayers?

Regardless of how anyone sees Kahdr, the lesson is there are laws which governments have to follow.

A few generations ago many people were very anti German because of the first and second world war and the incredible loss of life and persecution of Jews and other groups. Canada had lots of German immigration post war and now it is a non-issue.

On both sides in the second world war, civilians were targeted in bombing campaigns that were designed to terrorize the population killing women, children and entire families. It has all been forgotten and pushed under the rug as that generation is mostly gone.

A few decades ago it was the problems in Northern Ireland and Britain that dominated the news.

Terror and tragedy are nothing new. Unfortunately many humans, no matter what their background or religion are quite capable of demonizing their real or perceived enemies and committing violence, atrocities and disregarding the law to suit their own view of the world.

The majority of the victims of the current problems in the middle east are Muslims who are killing each other.

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"Dallaire says previous governments refused the opportunity to repatriate Khadr and he believes they should be held accountable for that."

And that's why they lost in every court. The government ****ed up, no matter how angry this makes everyone, including myself, they shouldn't have left a 15 year old Canadian in GB.

A 15 year old. Pay him and move on Canada.

The only **** UP is NOT cancelling his Canadian Citizen ship!
F*ck Ralph what a moron, make him pay the $10 mil!