"As any substantial award would have done, the Khadr settlement establishes an incentive for others to take serious risks (i.e. joining terrorist organizations abroad)..."

Several commentators, including myself, have raised the obvious solution which would eliminate incentives, liabilities, etc.:  When Canadians choose to leave the country to kill our troops and our allies, then by default they should lose their citizenship, period.  You can't fight against the flag and then hide behind its protections.  We're idiots for even having allowed it.

So far, I have not seen one cogent counter-argument to this suggestion.  I see a lot of blaming of previous governments and lectures about the constitutional rights of our citizens.  But these arguments would be moot had the Kadrs lost their citizenship when they left the country to pursue jihad against us.

If we could learn from this whole experience and make this one change, I'd say it might have been worth the $10.5 million.