One has to wonder how  much money was saved by settling or whether this will eventually cost much more.  It was important to take this court so that the truth came out with all the details.  Then assuming we lost, we could have pointed to the trial transcript and told the Americans exactly why we paid, that Canada was complicit in the torture.   I think a lot of good Americans would have been OK with that and I'm doubtful it would have impacted NAFTA.