Canada’s Trudeau-Backed $10.5 Million Payment to Jihadist Facing Court Challenge

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A decision by the Justin Trudeau-run government in Canada to apologize to a Guantanamo Bay detainee with a $10.5 million pay-out is now being contested in court by two of the victims of the killer’s jihad.

Omar Khadr is an ex-Gitmo detainee who pleaded guilty to killing an American medic named Sgt. Christopher Speer.

A U.S. judge awarded $134.2 million in damages to Tabitha Speer, the woman who was widowed by Khadr’s attack, and Layne Morris, a soldier who was blinded by the grenade Khadr threw.

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It’s not that the two expected to actually receive the money. It’s that the verdict was a symbolic message — a sort of statement of justice.

But Khadr has since claimed he was wrongfully prosecuted and fined because even though he admitted he threw a grenade, he said it can’t be proven his grenade actually killed Speer, or blinded Morris.

Omar Khadr smiles as he answers questions during a news conference after being released on bail in Edmonton, Alberta, May 7, 2015. Khadr, a Canadian, was once the youngest prisoner held on terror charges at Guantanamo Bay.

So Canada’s government agreed to pay Khadr $10.5 million for the suffering he endured during interrogation.

Speer, however, has filed an emergency injunction to stop this payout, and Morris has joined the effort.

From the Daily Caller (H/T Jihad Watch):

Tabitha Speer, widow of Sgt. Christopher Speer, and Layne Morris are expected to ask the Ontario Superior Court on Wednesday to honor a 2015 Utah civil court order that demanded Khadr pay them $134 million.

“They are trying to get an emergency injunction in a Canadian court to have their award in the United States enforced in Canada,” The Globe and Mail is reporting an unnamed source as saying. “Their desire is to have U.S. courts enforced in Canada, which would mean that any money that goes to Mr. Khadr would go to them.”

Because of the cross-border jurisdictions, it is unlikely that Khadr’s victims will ever see any of the money.

Khadr’s lawyer, Dennis Edney, told the Globe and Mail that he could make no comment on the issue because “that is the arrangement with the government.”

The former Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a hard line on Khadr, refusing to recognize him as a “child soldier” as much of the Canadian media now describes the man who pled guilty to murder.

Harper’s successor, Conservative opposition leader Andrew Scheer, has condemned the potential pay-out to Khadr. He took to Twitter on Tuesday to say, “Canadians know this is wrong. If Omar Khadr is truly sorry for what he did, he’ll give every cent to Tabitha Speer and her two children.” Scheer did not respond to requests from The Daily Caller for further comment.

The Supreme Court of Canada has denounced Khadr’s interrogation at the hands of both Canadian and American authorities…..

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to either confirm or deny the apology and payment to Khadr, obliquely referring to a “judicial process underway…is coming to its conclusion.”

An email from the Conservative Party of Canada to supporters was not so vague:

“Omar Khadr took the life of a husband and a father, and now the Liberal government wants to reward him with tens of millions of your dollars.

“Khadr is only alive today because of the medical treatment he received from U.S. forces after he killed one of their comrades.

“And now, thanks to Justin Trudeau, he will be one of the wealthiest men in Canada.”

Let’s hope Canada does the right thing here. Rewarding killers and terrorists with massive, multi-million dollar payouts is an egregrious slap in the face to justice, and to the victims and victims’ families.

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Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
6 years ago

Bless this courageous woman and her court injunction.
Burn In Hell Trudeau, you scum.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Continuing down this course, he will.

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Catherinecwaters
6 years ago
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C.Martel
C.Martel
6 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Trudeau is an Islamic little sex slave

Jeff Moffitt
Jeff Moffitt
6 years ago

Hang Trudeau!

bluewren
bluewren
6 years ago
Reply to  Jeff Moffitt

Upside down so some blood might flow to his brain and enlighten him before he dies.

NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago
Reply to  bluewren

Absolutley nothing in there to enlighten.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Canada today is so fallen… 🙁

Ron rockit
Ron rockit
6 years ago

If this moslem gets millions there is something pretty sick with Canadian courts

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

His lawyers will get millions, he will do ok, until he has to pay zakat on whatever he gets, which will be a lot less than the lawyers will take.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
6 years ago

Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro was 6’3″, Justin Trudeau 6’2″, and Pierre Trudeau 5’8″.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

That Richardhead is 6’2″? He doesn’t look like it.

NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

I didn’t believe they could pile BS that high?

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

It is NOT just Canada! The whole western world’s legal society/profession is rotten to the core with PC leftism. Just look at the killers of any race/ideology released by leftist lawyer/psychologist criminals who kill again after release. rehabilitation is an IDEAL, not a reality and especially so with murderers who are locked up to PROTECT society.
If you want to help the west you must first REMOVE the leftist taint from the law and enable it to do what it is supposed to do: protect its citizens, not flood them with jihadists. The Left planned the takeover of all law societies in the heyday of the Vietnam days and just have a look at how many of our most significant lawyers 7 judges were members of the radical SDS in those days.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

America, it is time to start playing hard ball with Canada. The liberals are playing us Canadians as fools, merely a cash crop of tax payers to be harvested for their insane wastes of money.
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AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I was thinking yesterday, that’s the real problem with taxation, it creates a cash hoard waiting to be plundered by unscrupulous politicians.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

That is exactly what happened in Canada, the previous Conservative government was financial responsible and realistic. trudeau spends like a drunken imam in a palestinian whore house.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Would that be whore house, or boy’s school or goat farm?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

They have “multiplexes” for the edification and gratification of believers, who believe goats and little boys are better than women.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

When muslum men argue w/their significant goats they usually lose.

normie
normie
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I hope you start soon so we can be sure he doesn’t get in for a second term. This cartoon says it all. A picture is worth a 1000 words. I hope that the widow the soldier Omar killed is able to take that money away from him in her lawsuit. As a Canadian I would rather the money go to her. This person doesn’t deserve it. As far as I am concerned he should still be in jail.This faint hearted government acted true to form.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  normie

The shameless pandering to muslims by trudeau is of the same blatant degree of o’bimbo. Every Canadians federal tax has gone up in the past year, mine personally, by about $3000, I very much resent that any of it goes to welfare for muslim colonists and paying off those who murder out American allies. Go, go, tuedeau, you are a disgrace and a buffoon.

C.Martel
C.Martel
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

He is a perfect Islamic collaborator

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  C.Martel

Whats worse, is those that voted liberal so he could do the damage that he did.

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

This is why you never put women and children in charge. You CURSE a nation that way. The little boy is untested, inexperienced and a spoilt BRAT!

This is also why women shouldn’t vote. They like little boys. Even Ann Coulter has said women should NOT vote.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

How about stupid people, as defined by those who cannot or will not work full time not vote. Are you really saying that inbred muslim welfare recipients would be better than an employed women at deciding who should pay their welfare cheque and run the country? Well, are you?

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

No Moslem should be in your land. But they are. They should NOT be receiving aid of any kind.

You must blame the Demoncraps on this one. Do you vote Demoncrap?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

No.

nero88888
nero88888
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

No, you right wing pieces of chit are hell bound. YOU SUPPORT Trump, a
LYING DISHONEST SEXUAL PREDATOR PIECE OF CHIT UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR
POTENTIALLY NUMEROUS CRIMES.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  nero88888

boring.

M. Marsares
M. Marsares
6 years ago

It amazes me that the POTUS has not expressed his (country’s) outrage publicly at this provocative action.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago

I’m just loving what Speer and Morris have done. We can absolutely bet that the mindlessly stupid Justin Trudeau was behind paying out a huge sum of money to a Muslim, now evident a member of his new chosen people along with the French – but not Albertans.

Peter Joffe
Peter Joffe
6 years ago

Its now a fact that Jihad pays. Either you get 72 virgins if you die or you get $10.5 million if you get caught. The world has gone mad but in the case of Canada that it now under Islam rule the rot is not far from the USA. Trudeau is another Obama but more open it as he destroys his country of birth. Islam is a disease and Trudeau has caught the virus. Trump you may need to buoild another wall in the North to keep the Canadian Jihadis out.

moose
moose
6 years ago
Reply to  Peter Joffe

That’s a job long, long OVERDUE !!

normie
normie
6 years ago
Reply to  Peter Joffe

I couldn’t agree with you more and unfortunately I am a Canadian. Trudeau is a curse to me as was his father before him. Our soldiers and yours must wonder why they even fought when this sort of thing is allowed. I can”t see Trump doing this. Obama yeah.

Allen Burrell
Allen Burrell
6 years ago
Reply to  Peter Joffe

As a Canadian I could not agree more. The worst ones are flocking over the border from the United States into Trudeau’s open arms and checkbook to meet their every need. A wall sounds great. The “rot” is in both countries already. You are fortunate to see Obama out and Hillary did not win. Unfortunately in Canada Trudeau got in. We are where you would be had Hillary won and it was a pretty close election as I recall. There are countless Canadians that share views not likely much different than your own but would not likely be inclined to lump all Americans to those that tortured a Canada born child soldier at a Black Ops American facility called Gitmo……just a taste of how easy it can be to create a divide.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago

The message here is that the bad guys get rewarded in Canada. This is just so sick. When did Canada take this big left turn?

NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago

When they elected the Libtard ran by Justytin turdreau.

Monique Thomson-Bean
Monique Thomson-Bean
6 years ago

Now that’s a complete 360 for ya. Canada my Canada, laid back, never to start trouble, in the background Canada. The one I’m ashamed of now. The one that’s gone to hell in a handbasket. The new Europe of the west. All this since that dipshit Trudeau moved in. I live in Europe and was planning on moving back one of these days. Partly because Europe has turned into a cesspool and I figured Canada wasn’t so far gone yet. Very cynical of me. How much more has to happen there before people open their eyes and don’t choke on the sand? To repay a terrorist, who admitted guilt, for his troubles and make him rich, is the biggest April fools joke of the year. I hope his victims have a judge that has an ounce of common sense in his brain and will never allow this to happen. It’s an insult to all victimized people all over the world. Shame on you, my Canada.

normie
normie
6 years ago

From one Canadian to another Thank You

Monique Thomson-Bean
Monique Thomson-Bean
6 years ago
Reply to  normie

You, my fellow Canuck, are very welcome. Eh? Lmao!

Janet
Janet
6 years ago

Trudeau is nothing but a traitor! The quicker the Canadian people figure this out the better. He’s another Obama. He may be even worse. Time will tell but it’s not on your side Canada as long as this POS and his party are running your country!

normie
normie
6 years ago
Reply to  Janet

With our system we can’t get rid of him for 2 more years. We don’t have control on him like the US system can control the President. He has the majority and does what he want. Not a good system

Sandy
Sandy
6 years ago

I would like to see Trump have a go at this moron Trudeau. Trudeau is disgusting and cares naught for Canada and Canadians. I am sure when this Muslim has his money it will be directed to some Muslim cause.

Ron Shaw
Ron Shaw
6 years ago

As a Canadian living in Edmonton and I assume close to this Islamic murder I am totally disgusted with our libtard prime minister and his blatant disregard for the real Canadian citizens born here and who have come to Canada legally. I hope the families who were affected by this murdering asshole get their financial revenge , get the best lawyers available and go after him and then the liberal federal government that tried to secretly pay out this murdering Islamist , go get them USA .

David Square
David Square
6 years ago

The American government should send Khadr a bill for the extraordinary medical services and treatments that saved his life.

NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
NonIslmophobicAthiestPedoHater
6 years ago

So now perhaps the vacation trip is explained. Turdreau was getting furether orders from hios real boss.

Allen Burrell
Allen Burrell
6 years ago

Outstanding and accurately reported Ms. Geller from a Canadian that has been outraged, speaking out and trying to make sure our government leadership knows this is unacceptable. While the lofty ideals of a Charter of Rights may well be used to try and justify, unjust enrichment of a Canada born terrorist of a terrorist family closely connected to the late Osama Bin Laden, wrong is still wrong.

There are presently unconfirmed reports that the money has already been paid, check cashed thus circumventing the legal action by Christopher Speers’ family and Khadr’s other victim.

Truth is oft times stranger than fiction and common sense a rare commodity.

C.Martel
C.Martel
6 years ago

Trudeau “the Islamic litle whore” was giving his brave Islamic soldiers a Ramadan bonus… he got a pair of “Islamic socks and wore them ” they get 10 million, that’s a deal any leftist business man should proud of.,,,

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

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This is liberal Canada. How do you like islam so far?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Treason and fiscal incompetence should be reason enough for the Governor General to dissolves parliament causing another election.

Cy
Cy
6 years ago

Will Americans BOYCOTT Canada over this outrage – tourists, businesses etc. ?

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
6 years ago

What is that boy’s problem…..

Bruce Atchison
Bruce Atchison
6 years ago

Let’s keep spreading the news of this swindle all over the Internet. People need to know about this stupid boy giving a war criminal more money than we’d ever see in a lifetime.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

It’s hard to believe this kind of insanity is going on in Canada.

Chris Heych
Chris Heych
6 years ago

Isnt there a petition for Canadians to sign to try and stop this man getting millions for killing people?

eimb1999
eimb1999
6 years ago

As a Canadian I am ashamed of the pure filth that runs this country and the idiots who were stupid enough to vote for said filth. Canada is a country loaded with morons.

Joe Stephens
Joe Stephens
6 years ago

Is Trudeau an idiot??? What a fool. This will come back to haunt him. Jihad will come to Canada. So sad.

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