Canadian Politics Today

It's not the same situation - at all.

It is exactly the same situation.  Leaving aside the fact that Khadr is probably innocent (a real court would have never even seen the case brought to trial given contradictory evidence.  A real court would also never have accepted the 'confession' given over a decade later under threat of continued torture and indefinite imprisonment) because it's irrelevant here, we are left with Canada violating his rights.  Canada violated Maher Arar's rights in a very similar way, and gave him a very similar reparation payment and apology.  Australia and the UK have given reparation payments to many of their citizens who were prisoners at Guantanamo as well.  It's not about the facts of the Khadr case as it relates to the crime that he was 'convicted' of committing, but the facts surrounding the breach of Charter rights by the Government of Canada.  Anything else is emotional garbage.