The Trudeau government should have just let the court case glacially play-out to its very last and very final appeal. (Our court system is nothing if not glacial.) 

If we lost ... as we probably probably would have done (with this current Supreme Court) ... no big deal.

The nation (and our hapless government) could have all (honestly) shrugged their/our collective shoulders and said, "It's the court's decision." 

And lawyers have to eat too.

The extra $10,000,000.00 that Mr. K would have been awarded in a court decision is chump-change to Prime Minister Trudeau. His people will just borrow it from China, and your kids or grandkids will pay it back someday. With interest, obviously ...

Thank goodness for small mercies (mercys?) that the interest-rate isn't too high these days. :)