{"id":2567,"date":"2017-11-09T21:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:35:28","slug":"debating-the-khadr-settlement-at-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/debating-the-khadr-settlement-at-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating the Khadr Settlement at Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorow, I will be traveling to London to debate the following proposition:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Trudeau government&#8217;s decision to award Omar Khadr a $10.5m settlement in July 2017 was an error in law and policy.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My opponent will be Rob De Luca, counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. I will take the position that the settlement was based on a misapplication of the law (though I don&#8217;t know if I will have anything to say about the wisdom of the policy behind the settlement), while Mr. De Luca will oppose the proposition.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is being held at the University of Western Ontario&#8217;s Faculty of Law, Room 44 at 12:00 p.m. I encourage anyone interested who lives in the London area to come down.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the Runnymede Society for hosting this debate and inviting me to participate. As you may recall, I previously wrote about the legal issues surrounding the settlement in a brief article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/the-legal-case-against-the-khadr-settlement\/\">here<\/a>, and I anticipate that I will be fleshing out some of these points a bit more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorow, I will be traveling to London to debate the following proposition: &#8220;The Trudeau government&#8217;s decision to award Omar Khadr a $10.5m settlement in July 2017 was an error in law and policy.&#8221; My opponent will be Rob De Luca, counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. I will take the position that the settlement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[107,255,375,412,413,208,372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}