Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MP Bev Shipley has blasted the Liberal government – and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – for issuing an apology and a $10.5 million compensation package to Omar Khadr. Meanwhile, Trudeau has defended the move and Khadr himself discussed the apology and settlement with CBC.
Shipley blast Liberals
“Canada has a new multi-millionaire,” Shipley said in a letter posted on his website last week.
“Omar Khadr is an admitted Al-Qaida terrorist who confessed to the murder of US Army medic Christopher Speer and maimed another soldier with a grenade. The same Omar Khadr who’s on video building improvised explosive devices exactly like the ones that killed countless serving Canadians.”
Shipley added: “Now Justin Trudeau is reportedly giving this convicted terrorist a $10 million compensation package and apologizing to him on behalf of you.”
Shipley said in his letter that 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.
Ironically Khadr is only alive today because of the medical treatment he received from US forces after he killed one of their comrades. And now, thanks to Justin Trudeau, he will be one of the wealthiest men in Canada. This is wrong,” Shipley wrote.
“Admitting to working with the same terrorist organisation that killed Canadians on September 11th doesn’t deserve an official apology from the Government of Canada. Killing our allies doesn’t deserve a $10 million pay day courtesy of taxpayers in Canada.”
PM defends the move
Trudeau defended the settlement and apology last week as well.
“The Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects all Canadians, every one of us, even when it is uncomfortable,” Trudeau said, as published in this Globe and Mail article. “This is not about the detail of the merits of the Khadr case. When the government violates any Canadian’s charter rights we all end up paying for it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Pswo75z-Q
Khadr speaks out
Khadr himself spoke with CBC News about the apology and the settlement:
A detailed background on Khadr can be seen, here.
– Photo credit: Bev Shipley, freeomar.ca, pm.gc.ca
Bev Shipley has no idea what he is talking about. He is blindly following the misinformation spread from the Conservative Party without regard for fact.
PM Trudeau was extremely limited in the choice he had to make regarding the issue.
Shipley should read the Supreme Court decision carefully and realize that the court would have awarded Khadar many more millions than what the plea agreement came to.
Blame Stephen Harper not Trudeau.
It is too bad Chatham Kent does not have a MP that can actually think for himself.
Blame Pierre Elliott Trudeau who developed a Canadian Constitution that the courts have interpreted in such a way that even the most vial of criminals can be rewarded generously with our taxpayer dollars for any violations under the Charter. Time to change the Constitution so that self professed and proven murderers are not rewarded for their choices in life just because of an error in law. For a party that has no problems thrusting our future Canadian generations farther and farther into debt I am now asked to suddenly believe they are more concerned about how much Canadian taxpayers money they may of had to pay if they fought this? I wish the Trudeau government showed this kind of restraint in their wasteful daily spending in their never ending goal towards the redistribution of wealth in Canada. Paying 10 million dollars to Khadar may have been the legal thing to do but the right thing to do in my eyes will always have been to fight it tooth and nail on behalf of all honest, law abiding, taxpaying Canadian citizens and pay whatever in the end, not just hand out easy money. So much for the old saying “Crime doesn’t pay”.
“confessed” equals plea deal because it was the only way out of Gitmo. The photographic evidence taken by US servicemen suggests he was buried under a pile of rubble.
“alive today” despite being tortured in Gitmo.
We have charter rights so that people like me and you and Khadr can be prootected from a malicious government.
The Supreme Court of Canada found in Khadr’s favour, That is why we have a Supreme Court, to protect us.
I am an old veteran residing in Quebec I am ashamed of my country’s action on the Omar khadr’s case. My first thought was that this young man was an enemy of Canada and may have killed Canadian soldiers as well. I would like to hear our defense minister Harjit Singh Sajjan’s thoughts on this frustrating issue. No doubt our Canadians in uniform who served in Afghanistan must feel “betrayed” by our Government to allow a enemy soldier to reside freely in Canada and to add fuel to the fire by making him a multi millionaire with our money complete with an apology.
I too blame Trudeau’s father who drew the “Canadian charter of rights”. When written in the seventies it missed out on the outcome of its loose wording leaving plenty of room for interpretations. By the way do we really need a Canadian Charter of Rights ? Why was it written in the first place? Anyways if I was still in the military I would have lost my appetite and my pride to serve under a very “liberal” Prime Minister.