For his imprisonment. Here is the remarkable thing, canada settled with him. This month Justin Trudeaus government awarded him more than 10 million and issued an official apology for being mean to him. Prime minister trudeau later said that he had not bothered t talk to the widow and he decided to defend the settlement as a win for human rights. I can understand canadians concerns about settlement. In fact, i share those concerns about the money. Thats why we settled. The measure of a society, of a just society, is not whether we stand up for peoples rights when its easy or popular to do so. Its whether we recognize rights when its difficult, when its unpopular. Tucker Michelle Rempel is a member of the Canadian Parliament and she joins us tonight. Thank you for coming on. Thank you for having me. Tucker is this a measure of the justness of canadiann society . An first of all, i want you to know that most canadians are outraged about this. They are outraged because of the payment itsel
canadians. tucker: so there s an effort online in canada to raise money for the family of christopher speer, tabitha speer. but also for the other soldier. speerkids.ca. . you have to understand is that this is not a partisan political issue, this is something that people who actually voted for this government are saying i m not comfortable with. you have to understand that canada values the relationships that we have in terms of our men and women in uniform serving shoulder to shoulder with each other. i think there s a lot of people going how did this happen and why? is a question for our prime minister to answer. tucker: why wouldn t he call the widow of christopher speer? again, i m sure that something he should answer for, but i know that our former prime minister stephen harper has reached out to her. i can t imagine being her right now and listening to all of this coverage and having to have
canadians. tucker: so there s an effort online in canada to raise money for the family of christopher speer, tabitha speer. but also for the other soldier. speerkids.ca. . you have to understand is that this is not a partisan political issue, this is something that people who actually voted for this government are saying i m not comfortable with. you have to understand that canada values the relationships that we have in terms of our men and women in uniform serving shoulder to shoulder with each other. i think there s a lot of people going how did this happen and why? is a question for our prime minister to answer. tucker: why wouldn t he call the widow of christopher speer? again, i m sure that something he should answer for, but i know that our former prime minister stephen harper has reached out to her. i can t imagine being her right now and listening to all of this coverage and having to have
first of all, i want you to know that most canadians are outraged about this. they are outraged because of the payment itself, how the payment happened and the fact that the way that it happened hasel probably preempted and prevented tabitha speer from seizing any i of those assets. tucker: the assets belonging to the father of this man? that s correct. i think while a lot of your viewers have just seen the statement, they should also know that most canadians i think are quite outraged and quite disappointed by the state of affairs. tucker: it doesn t seem just. probably a lot of people in canada, including some who have been legitimately mistreated by the government who could use ten and a half million dollars. this was a settlement, it wasn t any sort of payment that was awarded by a canadian court. this lawsuit that mr. khadr had filed was being litigated
effort online in canada to raise money for the family of christopher speer, tabitha speer. but also for the other soldier. speerkids.ca. you have to understand is that this is not a partisan political issue, this is something that people who actually voted for this government are saying i m not comfortable with. you have to understand that canada values the relationshipsa that we have in terms of our men and women in uniform serving shoulder to shoulder with each other. i think there s a lot of people going, how did this happen and why? it s a question for our prime minister to answer. tucker: why wouldn t he call the widow of christopher speer?we again, i m sure that something he should answer for, but i know that our former prime minister stephen harper has reached out to her. i can t imagine being her right now and listening to all of this coverage and having to have those wounds re-opened.