JeffSpooner, settling litigation rather than pushing every case to trial and repeated appeals is recommended by every level of court in Canada.  And settlements are virtually always confidential, as was the Arar settlement by the Harper government, just to name one.

The Harper government took the kind of scorched-earth litigation policy towards Omar Khadr that makes me shudder.  Every point litigated; every decision appealed.  And, to push a metaphor,  the earth they scorched was at Canadian's expense.  As I've pointed out before, the last SCC case in 2015 was a prime example; it had so little merit, the SCC announced its decision orally, on the spot.

As to tone, have a good look at the comment I responded to.  It began: "Trudeau fanboys again defending the indefensible, spreading the Big Lie about the Khadr case being unwinnable...."