The Member of Parliament for Portage-Lisgar is highly critical of the reported settlement offer and apology made by the Federal government to Omar Khadr, a Canadian convicted of several terror offences including throwing a grenade when he was 15-years-old and killing American soldier Sgt. Christopher Speer.

Khadr spent nearly 10 years in Guantanamo Bay under U.S. custody and is now a free man. The federal government has paid the former Guantanamo Bay inmate $10.5-million as part of a deal to settle his long-standing lawsuit over the violations of his rights.  Portage-Lisgar MP Candice Bergen calls the $10.5-million payment to Khadr made by the Liberal government, "completely wrong."

"It's wrong. Omar Khadr has admitted to killing an American medic, a member of the U.S. military ... He has worked together with terrorist organizations to attack Canadian military and other allied military," Bergen says. "This is an individual who has knowingly worked with terrorist organizations. He is now a free man in Canada and that is because of different court decisions. But for the Federal government to then go and add total insult to horrible injury and offer this man $10.5-million ... to do that is completely wrong and people are very upset about it."

Bergen adds if Khadr does receive this settlement, he should contribute every dollar to the widow and family of the U.S. soldier he killed.

"If he's truly sorry for what he's done, and he says he never wanted to do it and he was a child soldier and that's not who he is today, then he needs to give all of that money to Christoper Speer's widow and his children."