No one should think we’re paying Omar Khadr because he’s a good guy. We’re not paying him because anyone in the Government of Canada subscribes to the hateful views of his family. We’re paying him because we’re a country governed by laws — where we all have rights, or none of us do.
Once the SCC ruled in 2010 that Khadr's charter rights were violated this was the inevitable outcome.
To confuse this outcome with Liberalism vs Conservatism is willful blindness. It's an outcome based on laws and those laws are not subject to our opinions. They are laws whether we agree with them or not.