Let's look at that compensation for a moment. In trial cases where compensation is awarded, it is very common to look at loss income for that period that you were either unfairly imprisoned or injured and unable to work. Consideration is also given to care that you may have to be given going forward. Khadr when captured wasn't employed so there was no lost income. He wasn't falsely imprisoned, so no compensation there. The courts ruled that we should have brought him home to serve his sentence here, which we eventually did. So we are paying for not bringing him home, and paying for the torture he underwent at the hands of our ally. The 20M is lawyers were asking for was a made up number not based on any precedent , and was simply a negotiating tactic. Canada could have offered 5M and Khadr and his lawyers would have likely taken it, as 5M was better then zero. The lawyers were said to be working pro bono, but in the end it was on a contingency basis, hence the big number of 10.5M.