No malice, TO Mann?  So, the room and board comment was humour, was it?  Huh.

Very few of the Khadr cases established legal precedents.  All three SCC decisions on the merits of a case were decided unanimously - one delivered orally following the end of arguments.  Your claim is, to use an old legal expression, hogwash.

Stephen Harper and his ministers were open about their animosity towards Omar Khadr. That's why they took every case as far as they could - at our expense.

Parties should always explore settlements, especially in this case where the main issue on which liability depends - a finding of Charter violations against Khadr - was confirmed by the SCC 7 years ago.  And by the way, settlements by their nature are "in camera".