Layla4: You raise a good point. Also, over the past several days proponents of Trudeau's settlement have argued that it sets the standard in protecting our rights. But how can this be if the settlement and even details of the apology are secret? If our rights are so important, surely it would have been worth the expense of having the courts decide the Khadr matter out in the open. We would have known how far the government must go to protect our rights. And we would have known how far national security interests can be asserted as a justification for violating our Charter rights. Instead, this case accomplishes nothing in particular to delineate the rights of Canadians nor the limits applicable to the violation of those rights by the state. The secrecy makes it more likely that circumstances similar to those in the Khadr case will emerge in the future.