Omar Khadr case a reminder that life isn’t always fair, or equitable

The multi-million-dollar settlement the government paid to Khadr ignited valid howls of outrage, but what’s the dollar value of the lost youth of a 15-year-old boy soldier?

Protesters march in Washington, D.C., in 2012 against the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba where Canadian Omar Khadr was held for nearly a decade. Photograph via Elvert Barnes

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 3, 2019

OTTAWA—On March 25, an Alberta judge ruled that convicted war criminal Omar Khadr has completed his eight-year sentence. The final four years of Khadr’s sentence were served on conditional release in Edmonton. When Chief Justice Mary Moreau of the Court of Queen’s Bench gave her ruling, whic...

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