This circumvents any action by Khadr’s victims’ families to stop the payment. The Trudeau government knew that this would be wildly unpopular, and so they did it under the cover of darkness. Now it should be thrown out of office, if Canadians have any regard for freedom at all.
“Ottawa pays out $10.5-million to Khadr”, by Robert Fife, Globe and Mail, July 6, 2017:
The Trudeau government has quietly paid a $10.5-million settlement to Omar Khadr in a move that circumvents legal efforts by two Americans to prevent him from receiving compensation for abuses he suffered as a teenager at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Story continues below advertisementThe payout to Mr. Khadr and his legal team was given on Wednesday and cashed immediately, according to a source involved in the transaction. Legal settlements do not fall under taxable income, so Mr. Khadr will not have to pay taxes on the $10.5-million.
“I am not in a position to comment,” Mr. Khadr’s Toronto lawyer, John Phillips, said when asked by The Globe and Mail on Thursday to confirm the payment. Justice Department lawyer Barney Brucker also refused comment.
The payment halts efforts by lawyers for the widow of a U.S. Delta Force sergeant and a retired U.S. special forces soldier from seeking an emergency injunction to stop Ottawa from giving the multimillion-dollar settlement to Mr. Khadr and his lawyers.
“The injunction is moot. It is absolutely moot,” University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran told The Globe. “Plus, if they are smart, that money is not sitting in Omar Khadr’s name, it is sitting in a trust fund or it is sitting in a corporation or some other structure, and good luck in enforcing against that.”
Tabitha Speer and Layne Morris filed a court application in Toronto in a bid to enforce a $134-million (U.S.) wrongful death judgment against Mr. Khadr that a Utah civil court handed down in 2015. The court ruled that Mr. Khadr threw a grenade that killed Sergeant Christopher Speer, a Delta Force medic, and injured Mr. Morris during a 2002 battle in Afghanistan between U.S. forces and al-Qaeda militants.
The notice of application filed on June 8 in Ontario Superior Court referenced an emergency injunction “if requested” to block any payment of compensation to Mr. Khadr. No court date was requested for an injunction and Mr. Khadr’s lawyers and the federal government were not served with notice of the legal challenge.
Failure to serve the government and Mr. Khadr’s lawyers cleared the way for Ottawa to make the payment to Mr. Khadr, according to a federal insider.
A legal attempt to force the government to take the compensation back from Mr. Khadr would likely be difficult….
Mr. Khadr’s lawyers had filed a $20-million (Canadian) lawsuit against the federal government. Two federal insiders say Ottawa had no choice but to settle with Mr. Khadr because a court case could have cost taxpayers much more than $10.5-million.
Senior federal officials held a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday afternoon to develop a media strategy for the announcement that will include a written apology to Mr. Khadr.
Officials acknowledged that the Liberal government is concerned about the strong public backlash to the payout on social media, led in part by federal Conservative MPs….
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding. Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
Liberals with their identity politics and naive cries for “diversity” have become the pawns for Jihad and Hijrah. Radical Islam is an archaic, primitive belief system that has resulted in millions of deaths and NO forward advance of cultures it infects.
It’s laughable these “progressives”, who are supposed to want societal progress, want to import these refugees into our country and into the West.
We can no longer afford to house these 3rd world invaders. It’s too risky. America is struggling enough as it is. Most of us are making below living wage and had our health insurance forcefully taken away by Obama. My healthcare is up to $520 per month; compare this to my $25 per month car insurance (from Insurance Panda) or my $10/month life insurance. Both private enterprise (take note, Dems). Do we really want our tax dollars aiding these terrorists?
You can’t coexist with someone who wants to chop your head off.
Maybe the U.S. should take this up with Canada personally…honestly, there is no excuse for funding jihadists, directly or indirectly.
Managing director of Google says we are paying $97 per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family^ju180d:
On tuesday I got a great new Honda Accord from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it…Find out more here
~va180d:
➽➽
➽➽;➽➽ http://GoogleFinancialJobsCash180TopMoney/GetPay$97/Hour… ★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★:::::~va180o……
It’s the will of mohammad
will of Trudeau
jizya.for insluting the Slimer Cult Founder Big Al and bringing his socks to a Pride Parade. What a Maoroon…
He keeps his empty,rotted head and Canadians have to pay 10 million for this POS.
Managing director of Google says we are paying $97 per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family^ju110d:
On tuesday I got a great new Honda Accord from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it…Find out more here
~va110d:
➽➽
➽➽;➽➽ http://GoogleFinancialJobsCash110TopGood/GetPay$97/Hour… ★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★:::::~va110o…
Where is the American ambassador to Canada? This requires an official response, definitely a court investigation as to the entire procedure. There is too much under the table confidential covering up over this whole thing. It is an international incident, it requires an investigation and legal remedy.
It is now out of the hands of Uncle Sam and in the court of justice OF THE WORLD to indict Justin Trudeau for aiding and abetting a terrorist !!
There is an unsettle judgment against kadar by the estate of the soldier he murdered, one would think with all the lawyers in America, there would be a way to do something.
His lawyers will find the way out anyway. It’s time to start investigate his mental status and the stories of his childhood. I’m sure they”ll find by-polar disorder, bulling in his school, the bad quality of the school lunches- sorry if I’ve omitted anything else.
Kadhar or Turdreau?
Kadhar’s lawyers
That would truly be awesome, but politicians are never held legally accountable in the west. Other than being voted out, justice never happens.
If “Baby Doc” Trudeau knew about these judgements against this terrorist and still handed out the cash, the Canadian people are screwed. They’ve elected a nut-job that’s as bad as the Germans have.
Trudeau is as bad as the nut-job Germans have as well as the one they had 80 some years ago.
Nice payday for the lawyers.
There are legal ways to extradict him back to the US, seize his assets and make him pay. One day a smart US law firm will do just that.
Poor Justin Trudeau.
He thinks he’s all hip and down and sitting pretty at the cool table.
Come to find out, he’s a coward and a failure and a traitor of the highest order.
Like Father Like Son.
… which is why the Gitmo animals should have been air-conditioned after a military court heard their case.
apologies to animals…
upshot … canuckistani’s have to pay a Islamist for the crimes he committed.
Look – Canucks – if you think a judge, jury, and lawyers will defend you, your family, or your neighbors from the violence these animals are/will bring down upon you – you’re seriously Out To Lunch.
No one would believe this monster’s Big Lies – UNLESS – They HATED YOU.
Get that through your THICK skull.
You must know that the Canadian public is just as outraged. A generalized slur against Canadians may be satisfying but don’t forget that not long ago Canada perceived the US under Obama in much the same way.
We both (Canadians and Americans) face the same biases from media, academics and yes, even many of Trump’s key people.
As a Canadian, the Conservatives lost by only a couple of percentage points. Canada’s experience is by no means unique to Canada, and the US is certainly not out of the woods as we can see by the “resistance”, a military term not normally used by any kind of loyal opposition.
The MSM in Canada used a years-long propaganda campaign to skew the publics’ opinion of the previous PM – the only one in the Western world at that time to identify Islam as Canada’s greatest threat – and it wasn’t global warming like all the others. And Trudeau and his radical cabal as a result squeaked in by a couple of percent.
Bill Whittle’s excellent recent post on the power of propaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0sy8w23rU
Extremely well said. It’s hard to believe that so many people bought into that propaganda and did not see what trudeau really was. We have way too many hard core liberals in this country. What can you do? This is a democracy. We’re getting the crappy end of the democracy stick at the moment.
Yes. You have to give them credit. They have done a great job of doing just that. We are in a very dark and dangerous place right now. We’ll have to claw and hammer our way out.
Well that should be the moment Canadians stop paying taxes/jizya. That money is bloody in every way possible. I am outraged – and I am not Canadian.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has requested all those opposing this payment contact Trudeau via his email account.
[email protected]
There is also a petition on the CTF website, 52000 so far.
Is Trudeau paying terrorists any different than Obama giving the Iranians 150 billion? Most of the soldiers killed in Iraq died by IEDs conveniently provided by Obama’s good friends the Iranians. Liberals always will sell out their own nations to attempt to appease criminal nations.
I guess Trudeau and Obama are of the same mind set. Both are selfish and both are thieves.
If the US wants to compare apples to apples- how about the US tax payers stop being sheared 500 million a yet minimum to help fund a terrorist state that is killing Israelis.
President Trump should make Canada pay Khadr’s victims 10.5 billion dollars – one way or another
just like Mexico is paying for the boarder-wall
Canada is a World leader at nurturing and exporting islamic terrorism
Now if they would only post khadars address in Edmonton.
Can you imagine how many happy drug users there would be.
So Canada has their “OWN” obama now. I feel sorry for loyal Canadians.
That smirk on his face speaks volumes.
TURDeau is really Merkel’s best apprentice. They both should be hanged for treason.
The DNC should be able to take care of this issue the same way they take care of internal “problems”. Perhaps an arrangement can be made where Omar is the victim of a failed mugging, or have a weight set crush his neck, or his body wash up on a Florida beach, or found with a pillow over his head, or suicide, or a plane crash that somehow left a bullet hole in the victim’s head. There is an endless list of “accidents” that Dems have an ops plan that has already worked without any trace of any a crime, let alone who they hired for the hit.
Canadians with a sense of morality and what is right condemn Trudeau and his Liberal party of Islamic apologists. He will be thrown to the curb in disgrace in 2019. In the meantime, the Rebel is crowdfunding to raise $1M for the Speer family: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-raise-1-000-000-for-sgt-chris-speer-s-kids#/updates
Strip the murdered and Trudeau of their citizenship and deport them both back to Africa. The Africans need ballet lessons.
Poor Canada.
Wow.. just when you think twinkle toes tradeue, could not get any more insane