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Your a dick.....she lost her husband, her children lost their father, who was serving his country, as a medic I might add....Omar and his family has been nothing but a burden to the country, soaking in free medi- care for wounds received while committing terrorist acts in Afghanistan, and fighting against a coalition that included Canadian soldiers .and now you've claimed she should be ashamed....It is funny that the entire country is fallen in love with this terrorist, totally forgetting he was a terrorist, that has admitted to placing IED's on road networks in Afghanistan.....I country I might add that classifies him as a foreign terrorist, a Canadian citizen I might throw that in as well....A traitor to his own country, not to mention the crimes committed by the entire family....and some how he has become a poster child for Canada.....the only ones that should be ashamed is those that hold him in such high regard....

So like other places across Canada natives in Halifax used the occasion to decry Canada as an illegitimate country, call us all settlers and colonists, and complain about how mistreated they've been in the past. Six navy guys wandered over carrying an old Canada flag and singing God Save the Queen. There's no indication they said anything racist or behaved violently, but apparently they're in big trouble for expressing their 'disrespect' to the natives. Does anyone think if six natives had interrupted Canada Day festivities to call us all settlers and colonists and say we were on their land and should go 'home' that the navy or military or government would be taking any action against them? Not a chance! So it's okay to express your political views if they are hatred of Canada, but not allowed if they are patriotic about Canada. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/five+servicemen+involved+incident+indigenous+ceremony+canada/13596204/story.html

I'm starting to think that Trudeau and his minions are taking the attitude "keep the peace at any cost" with certain groups or individuals even if it offends mainstream Canadians.

Maybe you should post a list of topics that meets your newly established list of approved topics....or perhaps stick to moderating, that would be something new .... instead of attacking other posters because you feel like being a dick today....

Omar was captured by the US military, therefore their Prisoner....their responsibility, Gitmo was the site they stored all their prisoners for lack of a fitting term.... I am not defending what happened at gitmo, nor do i condone the use of mild torture to obtain info. and no it is not illegal, it does say that everyone should be classified as soon as possible, what i mean is there true identity handed to them, ie POW, illegal combatant, terrorist, spy etc etc...then criminal proceedings can take place.....that being said any nation can hold POW's forever, normally at the end of the conflict pow exchanges happen....here the conflict is not over, it was only through Canadian government intervention that omar is not still in US prison or given the lethal injection....whoops we forgot that part.....what should have happened is he should of been handed over to the Afghan government once his US sentence completed....i wonder if they would agree to a pay out, i think they would have handed him a shovel and dragged his ass out into the desert..... Remember he was a US prisoner, in their charge, and Canada was not lobby to have him brought back to Canada very hard, i mean what would we do with him, give him his own jail....that and the fact can you imagine how much media would have been generated on a treason charge.... I do not know why Canada did not charge him with any crimes he committed....my guess would be the government of the day wanted the whole thing to blow over.....and die.... Civilian deaths are covered under the conventions, they are to be minimised , they can not be eliminated totally.....this is war and death plays a huge role in it, and for the most part the civilians pay a huge price, normally the largest price....after all this is not lazer tag....don't mean to sound cold, but the nation needs to know that each time we send our military to the worlds shit holes to peace keep or make peace that it comes at a cost.... He is a terrorist , nothing more he is not afforded any rights under the convention, except the bare minimum....had he been part of another military yes he would have been treated differently,

Afghan civilians apparently dress as American military?

Ah, I've got it. Khadr made the nanothermite while he was in Afghanistan with his dad. Then they gave it to OBL who passed it to the hijackers who then threw it out the windows of the planes just before they hit the towers to generate the conspiracy theory.

Thank you, I wish more Canadians felt this way.....

Yes, I mean the Khadrs were just pawns in this whole deal right, god put that AK 47 in their hands and commanded them to kill coalition soldiers.....Canada's fault my ass....

This all boils down to how easy it is for fanatics to immigrate here and get citizenship. By the time he was born his family of immigrants had already moved to Pakistan. They only returned here for the free medical care and welfare. His family didn't want to raise children in Canada because of our slack morals. He spent almost no time here until his father was hurt in Afghanistan, whereupon they, of course, returned here for free medical care and more welfare. These people are not, realistically, Canadians. They despise everything about this country except its free welfare and medical care. They should never have been accepted as citizens, and their citizenship should have been revoked long ago. We should also get rid of our citizneship law that gives automatic citizenship to anyone born here. None of the Europeans have such a law. You should only get citizen by blood, if your parents are citizens. In the case of immigrant parents, you should only get citizenship if raised in Canada.

Why don't you just stop responding to my posts since all you ever do is whine about how they don't meet with your approval? Face the fact that my posts, coming from someone a little to the right of centre, are never going to make a far left progressive SJW like yourself anything but angry. Until Greg gives you permission to ban all conservatives from the site, though, you'll just have to put up with me.

I have lived and worked on and off reserves with aboriginal leaders and individuals for most of the last 50 years. I have been very well acquainted with previous Treaty Commissioners. I have done business with many, many bands, councils and individuals at my expense and risk. So don't sit in your liberal fantasy world of some big city asshole factory and try to tell me what the frick the damned issues with Canadian aboriginals are.

What happens to our military over there, what about their rights? What about the tortures they endure everyday? And now they are fighting for a terrorist"s rights because he was Canadian born and mistreated as a convicted terrorist? Where are their payouts, where is their justice? What is the point of countless men and women leaving behind everything they love to go fight in a war torn country, living in a hell beyond anything we can imagine, everyday, to see their own government handing over 10.5 million dollars to one man who pleaded victim after being imprisoned for being a terrorist. I couldn't imagine waking up one day to find the scum that killed my husband gets paid 10.5 million dollars from my own government. He has his freedom, he has his life, he exists in one of the best countries in the world, and yet that just wasn't enough. I shake my head to this nonsense. To all the humans rights activists and legal teams who fought ever so hard for this, and to the Canadian government - put your energy, time, and money towards the men and woman who fought, and still fight, for this country. Who don't see a sliver of handouts from their government, compared to what this murderer has. Who deal day in and day out with PTSD, who are unable to work due to the injuries they received whilst fighting for you, who lose their lives, whose children grow up without a parent, whose parents lose a child, whose widows have to work twice as hard to take on two roles. When it comes to rights, 10.5 million isn't right to apologize to a terrorist for "mistreating him" during his imprisonment when our own who are mistreated daily don't even see a Thank You for your service and a pat on the back. Thanks to you, a terrorist's voice rang louder then any of the Canadian soldiers fighting them ever did. If he was truly sorry for what he did, he would give every penny to that soldier's widow and children.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/north-koreas-missile-can-hit-alaska-how-important-is-this-new-test-and-how-it-might-affect-world-security-3777731.html It's now a real threat to Canada. What's our federal government saying about this? It seems so quiet, am I missing anything? What's the plan? Is there any plan????

One party turns up with the Canadian flag upside down with decolonize scribbled on it. Another party turns up with a flag that over 100,000 Canadians died defending and sings The Queen. Which party is in shit. Oh Canada.

that's not what the pictures show when US military members were treating Omars wounds on the battle field....now there may have been some dressed in afghan garb, but they carried wpns openly and if you check the Conventions that is one of the requirements.... 4.1.2 Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organised resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions: that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognisable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I); that of carrying arms openly; that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

Apparently you don't follow the law .....he was not in a defending force....he was in a terrorist group....hence the unlawful combatant....both are against canadian law..... but here is the ball buster, he was a canadian....hence why we are having this conversation....not afghanis, so no defending the home.....family or friends sorry....according to the law.....he was an unlawful combatant, that's code for terrorist....or legitimate targets...to be shot on site, he is very lucky to be alive because terrorist are not normally afforded second chances....normally they are sent to pick up their 72 virgins.....

Nonsense. Read what happened. The above is absolutely false. There were eye witnesses who corroborated he shot a medic in cold blood and then got shot - hs stomach came out and another medic saved his life engaging in heroic measures after watching him kill his friend. No Kadr was not engaging in ballet at the time. What the hell do you think he was doing?

Let's summarize for the Squid keeping in mind I have as he claims debunked myself: (and to think some people are told not to do that or they will go to hell) and all my info can be found at : http://www.danielpipes.org/1639/the-khadrs-canadas-first-family-of-terrorism 1-Omar Khadr's father became the highest ranking of 75 Al Quaeda operatives working out of Brampton, Ontario; 2- At that time our federal government donated $325,000 from 1988 to 1997 ito a charity HCI which then sent the money to Al Qaeda; 3-Khadr was then arrest by Pakistani authorities in 1995 for siphoning off HCI funds to pay for an Al Qaeda terrorist operation, to be specific an attack on the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan, which killed 18; 4-Our Prime Minister Jean Chretien then visited Pakistan to intercede and had Khadr released and he then returned to Canada. In 1996, he and set up an Islamic charity they named "Health and Education Project International." which of course again funnelled money to Al Quada. 5- Then less that 6 month later, of Kadr and his family went to Afghanistan openly supporting Al Quaeda terrorist operations. 6-Aftyer 9-11 and presumably Hot Enough was not yet born, Khadr vanished later to be found in October 2003, by Pakistani forces after DNA samples were taken from a corpse which died in a terrorist shoot out. 7-But wait its all in the family: Omar's Mama, Maha Elsamnah took her then 14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al Qaeda training; his sister Zaynab, 36, was engaged to one terrorist and married, with Osama bin Laden himself present at the nuptials, a Qaeda member in 1999; lovely and caring Zaynab o this day endorses the 9/11 attack and openly states her daughter will die fighting Americans; Omar's brother Abdullah, 35, is an Al Qaeda fugitive who ran an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan during the Taliban period;. Omar's otherbrother Abdul Karim, 27, is now half-paralyzed by wounds sustained in the October 2003 shoot-out that left his father dead, and is in prison in Paistan. Ah but there is one black sheep in the family, Omar's brother, Abdurahman, 34, also an Al Qaeda terrorist , was captured by coalition forces in November 2001 and agreed to work for the Central Intelligence Agency in Kabul, Guantánamo, and Bosnia and returned to Canada in October 2003, where he claims to hav e denounced both extremism ("I want to be a good, strong, civilized, peaceful Muslim" ) and his family's terroristic ways. Let's be clear this is a terrorist family and current members of Al Quaeda. The person our idiot government ius giving 10 million to supports Al Quaeda..

We do know that Omar Khadr and his jihadist family were making huge IEDs in Afghanistan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1iYT-hjns Just another terrorist from Canada.

No but I have conceded I may have gotten to personal in remarks. Lol please carry on. Debunked my own claim. Lol. There are a lack of laws dealing with terrorism. There are criminal laws as to oversees terrorism that we do have that have not been used against Kadr. Yah I know that's a difficult thing for you to conceive. Next, you want to prop Kadr as a victim, let me be as clear as possible, he is an unrepentant terrorist who does not believe he did anything wrong. Is that clear enough for you or do I need to explain what paint chips are to you as well.

Countdown to when he will refer to "nanothermite" ...10, 9, 8, 7, 6..........

The difference here is that Trump and his supporters live in a nation with real free speech rights, not the limited, watered down version found in Canada. The "Proud Boys" find themselves on the wrong side of Canada's biased expression rights and the wall of political correctness.

You bet I laugh at your attempt to defend this scum. The Supreme Court of Canada is not the issue-you are and you've made yourself the issue propping this scum as some sort of victim in need of legal protection. The Supreme Court deals with legal procedures and assures proper procedures are followed. Its not up to them to pass laws to assure terrorists remain in jail where they belong. The moral of the story is instead of paying Kadr specimens 10 million dollars each and turning them into heros they should be shot and killed on the spot in the middle of their cold blooded killing attempts. Yah even your beloved Justin cheers long distance shots.

Lol yah that's right. Killing an unarmed medic, travelling to a foreign nation using your Canadian passport to violently kill and terrorize its innocent civilians is no big deal. How dare anyone jail or kill a terrorist using Canada as his operations launch pad. Its a crime against humanity to stop terrorism. Hey how about you stick to paint chips. This one is out of your depth.

You are so full of it. What Canadian laws did he break? Stop asking questions you know the answers to. Yah you never heard of the Criminal Code. You need to ask. 2. In this Act, “terrorism offence” means (a) an offence under any of sections 83.02 to 83.04 or 83.18 to 83.23, (b) an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament committed for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group, (c) an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament where the act or omission constituting the offence also constitutes a terrorist activity, or (d) a conspiracy or an attempt to commit, or being an accessory after the fact in relation to, or any counselling in relation to, an offence referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); . 7(3.74) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act, every one who commits an act or omission outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would be a terrorism offence, other than an offence under section 83.02 or an offence referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition “terrorist activity” in subsection 83.01(1), is deemed to have committed that act or omission in Canada if the person (a) is a Canadian citizen; (b) is not a citizen of any state and ordinarily resides in Canada; or (c) is a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and is, after the commission of the act or omission, present in Canada. Terrorist activity committed outside Canada (3.75) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act, every one who commits an act or omission outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would be an indictable offence and would also constitute a terrorist activity referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition “terrorist activity” in subsection 83.01(1) is deemed to commit that act or omission in Canada if (a) the act or omission is committed against a Canadian citizen; (b) the act or omission is committed against a Canadian government or public facility located outside Canada; or (c) the act or omission is committed with intent to compel the Government of Canada or of a province to do or refrain from doing any act. (3.76) and (3.77) [Repealed, 2000, c. 24, s. 42] Oh wait you need to be told: Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001) of 28 September 2001: ...Declares that acts of international terrorism constitute one of the most serious threats to international peace and security in the twenty- first century, Further declares that acts of international terrorism constitute a challenge to all States and to all of humanity, Reaffirms its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomever committed...8 5. States must also fulfill their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and other provisions of international law with respect to combating international terrorism and are urged to take effective and resolute measures in accordance with the relevant provisions of international law and international standards of human rights for the speedy and final elimination of international terrorism, in particular: Yah you never heard of the above. Who you? Hell yah that's the same UN that is full of terrorist nations-yah that one. The fact is there is no international law for terrorists like Kadr as you are ware precisely because the UN is now run by terrorist nations that will never agree on a definition of a terrorist unless it has to do with a Jew living in a Jewish nation. The Genevea Conventions as you ae well aware only deal with soldiers of nations whose countries have signed the Geneva convention. Kadr was a terrorist not a soldier. He was a terrorist, He violated Afghani laws, Canadian laws, American laws. He killed a medic in cold blood knowing he was not armed. Go play with someone else.

I know that ISAF was sully endorsed by the UNSC. And please don't try and drip drip your 9-11 conspiracy theory into yet another thread.

Him and his whole family were Canadian citizens, who were ALWAYS traitors, who went to fight WITH THE TERRORISTS, against Canadian forces, IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. The second they stepped off that plane into Afganistan to fight AGAINST Canadian forces, their citizenship should have been revoked and the US can do whatever they please with him.

As I said in the OP, you can be damned sure that if native members of the military had interrupted a ceremony there would be no response from the government or military. These people did nothing illegal, said nothing racist, and were exercising their freedom as citizens to discuss issues of interest to them (something many on the Left have extreme problems with). It seems it's fine to protest against Canada but not for it. It's fine to call Canadians settlers and colonists and dispute their right to be here, but not acceptable to turn on those who say such things and remind them of a few honest truths. Further, there was an article in the post from John Robson today in which he suggested that some, even much of the 'appreciation' many have for Trump is that at least sometimes he'd willing to state blunt conservative messages - ie, reality. We are expected to take insult after insult and sneering put-downs from the Left and from every left wing activist group but never respond with anything but timid smiles and apologies - and money. A lot of people are extremely frustrated about that, and if the only person they see standing up to it is someone like Trump, well, they're willing to go with that. Bill Maher has said one of the reasons many voted for Trump and wouldn't support Clinton was the stupid left wing identity politics she and the Democrats engaged in - the same sort of thing Liberals and NDP engage in here.

I'm sure Edward Cornwallis thought there must be a pretty good reason to offer a bounty for Mi'kmaq whose cooperation and assistance would normally be sought... The Mi'kmaq attacked both the French and British forces in the region. Cornwallis and the French offered Native ranger units (Wabanaki, etc) a bounty on their heads. However, something like only ONE scalp was ever turned-in. So get that image of evil Redcoats bashing-in innocent heads with muskets out of the current fantasy....heh.

I regard your pointless posts as little more than ideologically driven harassment, actually. They don't speak to the topic but just complain that you don't like the topic.

The 'ceremony' btw, was at a statue to the first governor of Nova Scotia, General Cornwallis, and was meant to condemn him for his alleged genocidal attacks on the Mi'kmaq of the region. This is how natives 'celebrate' Canada day, by condemning us all and our ancestors. In point of fact, if you look up Cornwallis on wiki it says he was ordered to establish a post at Halifax, so had no choice, and that his post, as well as British civilians and ships were then repeatedly and violently attacked by Mi'kmaq warriors. I see nothing of a genocide. He did offere money for Mi'kmaq scalps but that was the practice of the New Englanders nearby, and the French offered the Mi'kmaq and Acadians fighting him money for British scalps. There's no evidence his offer of money for scalps ever got him more than one or two though. He eventually negotiated a peace treaty with the natives, then left, and it was signed by his successor. The natives then continued their attacks and his successor tore up the peace treaty.

And, what would you say if it gays, women or BLM interrupting some straight white folks?

I don't care how he was treated at Guantanamo. He was a terrorist, fighting in Afganistan against the West. There are consequences to that and he should not be shielded from them.

It is unfortunate that they did not teach you spelling or science. Are we to believe you are smarter than Stephen Hawking? It is sad to see the decline in political discourse in the U.S. and Canada. Not long ago, two icons of American politics, President Kennedy and Senator Goldwater were close friends, close enough that they planned to run for President in 1964 by touring together to campaign against each other. They disagreed but respected each other. In the 2008 campaign, GOP candidate Senator McCain jumped to Senator Obama's defence when someone in the audience misstated the Democratic candidate's religious affiliation. There will always be disagreement between liberals and conservatives, but the failure to respect each other puts democracy at risk.

If there'll be any pay-out involved......it should all go to his victims! http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/05/22/us-victims-launch-425m-civil-case-against-omar-khadr No one should profit from crimes - especially such an atrocious act like terrorism!

It is political! The justice system is stacked with political appointees!

No the aboriginals are not immigrants they did not leave one country and go to another as such concepts of country and nation did not exist back then. The proper term would be migration and that is how every part of the world became populated is through migration.

On July 10th, Juno is scheduled to pass directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at "low" altitude (3,500 km). http://earthsky.org/space/juno-close-pass-jupiter-great-red-spot-july-10-2017

It is a lot harder than those sitting on their asses in Ottawa, hoping that the real leaders of the world can figure things out. Always gonna be scary if all you can do is depend on what the Americans and other nations do. I guess it's more important (and much cheaper) to remain a NATO deadbeat and give millions to Omar Khadr instead.

Well, eyeball's idea of fun is watching mushroom clouds go-up over the horizon from his radiation-proof fishing boat...Ernst Blofeld style. You don't want eyeball in charge of fire prevention at the Great Library...

Music to my ears. Thanks for making my day Rue.

It was Canada's fault that we didn't organize with the US for Khadr be returned home to Canada much sooner and punished, or at the very least demand he be confined in a humane US detention facility on American soil under US constitutional law as a Canadian citizen, with the humane treatment and due process of the law that comes with that. Instead our gov was complicit in continuing his inhumane detention & treatment as an "enemy combatant" (which is a label used so the US doesn't have to live up to the Geneva Conventions) in the hellhole that was gitmo. Gitmo is located where it is specifically to avoid US & international law so they can treat the prisoners like hell. Where was his right to habeas corpus? They let him rot in there for far too long without being tried in court. Khadr and his family are a bunch of scumbags, and we can hate them all we want, but we didn't treat Khadr and his case properly. Given he was a child at the time, and was a Canadian citizen, we owed him that much, we owed him the basic legal rights as a prisoner that any mass murderer or rapist or serial pedophile in Canada (or the US) are entitled to. It's sad we have to pay out this scumbag this huge sum, but we're in the wrong here too.

Our Canadian soldiers mean nothing to this present day liberal government who treats people like Khadr, and criminal illegals as gods. I have said it before and I will say it again, the liberals are well on their way to the destruction of a once great nation, and the creation of a new Canada where the likes of Khadr are treated as true and real patriotic Canadians.

It's 10 million dollars that is going to get funnelled right back into terrorism. This Kadhr family were never Canadians, except to receive health care for injuries they received while they fought with the terrorists in Afganistan. The mother refused to live in Canada, despite getting citizenship, because she didn't like Western influences on her children. Setting your children up to be terrorists is apparently far better than Western influences. Je suis sick of this religion.

The Supreme Court has been there, done that regarding face coverings. If you are allowed to wear a face covering at a citizenship ceremnony, what would possibly be the point of ethnic screening for the same thing prior to entry? You could not get that issue in front of a JP, never mind the Supremes.. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-drop-controversial-supreme-court-of-canada-niqab-appeal/article27280846/

Horse sheeyat. I didn't send him to Afghanistan. His father a terrorist who brought him up as a terrorist did. His father used this country as a patsy cover to operate terrorist logistics. Canada. Yah right. If Canada is responsible for him then he belongs in jail or better still shot dead. He was a terrorist pure and simple. No I don't make pets out of sewer rats..

He should be in prison for life. The notion this piece of garbage gets any money makes me puke. This is an unrepentant terrorist with a family who endorse and support terrorism and he's given an obscene amount of money while the children of the soldier he killed suffers. Ths glorification of terrorist scum makes me puke. That is all he is scum. This crap he was a victim child is everything wrong with this country's inability to grasp a world outside privileges and rights where everyone is entitled to something. I love all the liberals who prop him like some cuddly teddy bear trendy cause. How many Canadian soldiers have been forsaken since they came back from Afhanistan and they have the nerve to hand him this amount?

I agree but I have yet to see a hint of forward progress on either side. The problem lies in the fact there are over 600 First Nations so you are never really dealing with one point of contact but rather a moving target. Some want more money, some want more rights where as some are happy the way things are. The Feds continue to make promises for election purposes but then get into office and realize its a no win situation so they play the same game of delay and sit on decisions with the occasional calming of a few fires with a few extra dollars. So what is something realistic? We know that full sovereignty is not possible within Canada. So what about going the other way? Could it be a one time buyout? Maybe but what would that price tag be? And what are the legal possibilities of having this go through? Or is the actual game plan the most plausible...which is for the Feds to continue to drag their feet and create a situation where grass roots indigenous people start suggesting realistic changes. I think that was the chord struck with the Transparency Act. Not an easy situation but what makes it worse is all the false rhetoric that you see in the media and by various members on this forum.