Were the damages to have been determined by a jury of his peers, do you think the award would have been anywhere near or above $10 million. I can't imagine that it would have been. No doubt, both sides would have appealed any decision they didn't like all the way up to the SCC, but higher courts would have had to take into account the deleterious aspects of any award to Khadr, likely including generating moral hazard as well as creating an implied disincentive for Canadian officials to come to the aid of Canadians in trouble abroad. It should be remembered that the SCC primarily based its previous decisions in Khadr on the involvement of Canadian officials who travelled to Guantanamo, which thereby implicated the Canadian government in Khadr's mistreatment by the Americans. Maybe the 'rule of law' technically won in this matter. On the whole, however, the spirit of justice and ordinary Canadians are the big losers.