https://www.c-span.org/video/?430879-3/wash...m&start=431

 

Starts at 7 minute mark.

 

What, if any, should be the government's role in protecting/ensuring the American Dream?

 

Do African Americans have an equal opportunity to achieve it?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-compensat...-155138676.html

 

The Canadian one certainly is....ex Gitmo prisoner receives $7 million settlement from the Canadian government.

 

 

"Meet Canada's newest multi-millionaire – Omar Khadr," said the Conservatives as they unveiled a protest petition.

 

Tony Clement, the Conservative Party's public safety spokesman, said "it is one thing to acknowledge alleged mistreatment, but it is wrong to lavishly reward a convicted terrorist who murdered an allied soldier who had a wife and two children".

 

Khadr spent a decade in Guantanamo before being returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence. He was released on bail in 2015 and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

 

The Canadian government and Khadr's lawyers agreed on the compensation deal, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity. Canada has reached a series of expensive settlements with citizens imprisoned abroad who alleged Ottawa was complicit in their mistreatment.