Your view is not one of leadership. Leaders don't leave decisions to the courts, but take responsibility for history and clear the table for more important considerations than what one teenager did or did not do in the fog of war while under the influence of zealots.  What was clear was a citizen had their rights removed by the government and reparations had to be made, not for the individual per se, but so that it doesn't happen again to Canadians in the future.  Canada looks great on the world stage because it stands up for rights, not arbitrary imprisonment and punishment of individuals by weak or Machiavellian politicians seeking to satisfy ignorant populist uproar.