Oh my - please tell us "what's going on"?
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Such a fine legal mind you are -  see you equate Arar and Khadr in a post below.
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Whatever the legal issue is, at the end  - for us folks with "gut instincts" only -  the fact of the matter is this:
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A terrorist(at the time) was captured and is now awarded obscene amount of money on pure technicality - courtesy by the inept Government officials at the time ( and the fact that the family had embarrassed the Government already).
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The legal system and 'fine legal minds' can celebrate all they want, but when a criminal walks off the court free, cash in hand -  based on technicality, the rest of us are not happy about it.