The federal government has formally apologized to former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, confirming Friday a financial settlement has been reached to end ongoing legal action. Those facts are not in dispute and there is no doubt about how the Supreme Court views them. The Justice Minister said the Supreme Court rulings demanded the government provide some kind of remedy. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the Liberal government's decision to compensate Omar Khadr is "disgusting." Khadr was 15 when he was captured by U.S. troops following the confrontation at a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.

Source: CBC News July 07, 2017 15:14 UTC