Governments are supposed to protect citizens being persecuted, or prosecuted, by foreign powers. The former government patently failed, or deliberately chose not to honor,  its essential obligations to citizen Khadr. 

Our courts instructed them twice, they responded with a series of publicly-funded appeals to deny him his Charter rights. Our courts,  including the highest court in the land said the government was dead wrong. 

Pay the man's expenses. And Mrs.  Speer should be allowed to bring her case before the court. Although I believe Khadr, or any other opponent owes her none of the debt her nation does - it's the price a soldier's family pays.