Dear Editor:
There is no pragmatism and even less principle on the part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to award over $10.5 million plus an apology to the terrorist Omar Khadr.
When I gave my misguided vote to the Liberals in the last federal election, I didn’t vote for the Supreme Court of Canada, an unelected entity appointed politically by the party in power.
The majority of Canadians cannot understand why a family such as the Khadrs immigrated to our free country, adopted the Canadian nationality and then decided to return to Afghanistan to fight against the values of our world by joining the obscurantism of a terrorist organization such as Al-Qaeda. Canada was in a state of war against Al-Qaeda.
There were Canadian troops fighting there and getting killed and maimed.
As a so-called “child,” from the moment Omar Khadr threw a grenade that killed an American medic and severely wounded another soldier, Khadr forfeited his constitutional rights.
As a Canadian citizen fighting his own people, this would be called high treason in any other country.
He is extremely lucky to be alive and we Canadians should have absolutely nothing to do with what happens to him and his stupidity.
It seems to me and a lot of Canadians that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms only benefits certain groups well versed in terrorism who import the problems of their countries of origin to Canada. We well remember the saga of Air
India Flight 182 which killed 300 passengers, and only one perpetrator went to jail.
He was from the terrorist organization Babbar Khalsa, well implanted in Canada but prohibited in the U.S. and Europe.
All the others got away because of mysteriously erased wiretaps by CSIS.
That $10.5 million was delivered to Khadr at lightning speed and very secretively – much, much more rapidly than the salaries of the federal government employees, unpaid for months, as well the Canadian war veterans allocated ridiculously small lump sums for fighting the likes of Omar Khadr and terrorism in general.
I only hope that the American widows of the soldiers killed and wounded will get full redress by our government, which means us.
Claude Esposito
North Vancouver
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