text: Well, I wouldn't! Khadr was abused by the Americans for years from 15 years old and Canadian agents helped them out. Khadr was asking for $20 million. the federal government had already spent $5 million fighting Khadr, mostly under Harper, and would have spent more again fighting this in Court only to lose! Even the US medic who kept Khadr alive after he was found almost dead and blind in one eye thinks that paying the $10.5 million was the thing to do and it was one of his comrades who got killed! Remember too, that Maher Arar was awarded essentially the same amount.