It seems that most of the comments here have missed the whole issue with this payment.  He is NOT being paid for what he did in Afghanistan,   and despite the anger,  that has no relevance to the point.  He is being paid because the Supreme Court has ruled,  twice,  that his rights were abused by the Canadian Government.   Whatever his actions were in Afghanistan,  the Supreme Court has clearly ruled that the Cdn Govt abused his rights.   That is the point of the payment.   Everything else about his age,  the status of his confession,  etc is just noise.