Dude, it's SO much different. It's incredible worrying that you're equating a flurry of patronage appointments made by Turner in the dying days of his administration (which are indeed the prerogative of the PM and which were indeed greasy AF) with a Supreme Court decision that held the government of Canada culpable for severely violating a citizen's Charter rights. No matter who the PM might have been, the GoC would have been on the hook for the Khadr payout. 

Trudeau did have one option: settle now, or proceed to the inevitable verdict, which would have been in the $20m+ neighbourhood (not including legal costs, which would have added to the $120m~ total that the Harper government spent fighting this). I don't care what you think of Trudeau or the Liberals, but I beg you, please stop creating equivalencies where none exist.