A big question is: how did they arrive at $10,500,000?

David Milgaard only received $10M, and his award should really be the high water mark.  16 years old, falsely accused, wrongfully convicted and 23 years in the slammer.  Innocent.

Maher Arar at $10.5, while perhaps not quite as straightforward, had an apparently innocent man thrown under the bus by the intelligence services.  Apology & compensation certainly deserved.

Omar Khadr at $10.5M is scarcely equivalent to the above two cases.  Regardless of what may or may not have transpired on the battlefield, he was fighting against the country of his citizenship and happily making IEDs to harm Canadians and our allies.  

At minimum, this should have massively reduced the amount paid (in accordance with legal principles/precedent) and have also shifted much of the liability to the Americans.

Canadians are owed a complete explanation --