http://nationalpost.com/...19-b3fc-ca9feeff641d

Only in Canada do we pay traitors for trying to kill us.

unfortunately you are speaking from ignorance. the payout and the apology had absolutely nothing to do with his crimes outside the country and suggesting that is ignorance.

Yes I agree the payout was extremely excessive and I do NOT agree AT ALL with giving him the ANY money. I understand why there was a money aspect to the verdict But I don't agree with that aspect of it.

But I am ok with the apology from the Canadian government for leaving a canadian national (a teenager under 18yrs old at the time) to be tortured and abused for ten years by another state in gitmo. Other countries pulled their nationals out of there.

We should have done the same and (ie pulled him out of gitmo and brought him back to canada to jail him) tried him (for his crimes) and convicted him here in canada at the time. If you are a citizen of a country it behooves the country to abide by its laws towards you.

That said I really hope the US family of the soldier he killed will take him to civil court and take the money he received away from him.

unfortunately you are speaking from ignorance. the payout and the apology had absolutely nothing to do with his crimes outside the country and suggesting that is ignorance.

Yes I agree the payout was extremely excessive and I do NOT agree AT ALL with giving him the ANY money. I understand why there was a money aspect to the verdict But I don't agree with that aspect of it.

But I am ok with the apology from the Canadian government for leaving a canadian national (a teenager under 18yrs old at the time) to be tortured and abused for ten years by another state in gitmo. Other countries pulled their nationals out of there.

We should have done the same and (ie pulled him out of gitmo and brought him back to canada to jail him) tried him (for his crimes) and convicted him here in canada at the time. If you are a citizen of a country it behooves the country to abide by its laws towards you.

That said I really hope the US family of the soldier he killed will take him to civil court and take the money he received away from him.

If he was tortured and abused by the US government why didn't he sue the US government?


Because it's very difficult to sue a foreign government when you aren't a citizen and it would have been even more difficult when you are sitting in a prison. The definition of "torture" is also different so what may not be torture in Guantanamo for "enemy combatants" is different here. For the U.S to admit to torture in a case like that would be a pointless exercise.


When he returned to Canada, his lawyers advised him that it would be a long and expensive process to sue the U.S since he would be considered an enemy combatant. He sued Canada because the Canadian government clearly violated his rights. He was a child when he went to Afghanistan and the government did nothing to protect him from being "tortured". As a Canadian, he falls under Canadian law, so has a legal basis to fight.

Do you ever wonder why people like John McCain didn't sue Vietnam for his torture. He is not a Vietnamese and Vietnam would simply claim it was part of war.

http://nationalpost.com/...19-b3fc-ca9feeff641d

Only in Canada do we pay traitors for trying to kill us.

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As for the women fighting over in Mosul, it is very different than Khadr because he was a child and going with his father, and at this point, there is no evidence that he was the one who actually threw the grenade. His admission of guilt was a way to get out of Gitmo. He was too young to make a decision to stay in Canada.
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