It was the kind of tone deafness Trudeau pere et fils often have exhibited as in the recent example of JT refusing to answer a question in English from an Anglophone woman because he was in Quebec.  

And Liberal spin doctors and trolls attempts to make Harper look bad for fighting, appealing and delaying in court the rewarding of an enemy soldier-murderer of the most repressive, discriminatory, dismissive of human rights and freedoms extreme radical scum of the 21st century won't fly either.  Appealing and delaying this absurd pay off to a wartime enemy-murderer may cost me as a Canadian taxpayer somewhere between 35 cents and a dollar but I shall gladly pay it and more.  As former Conservative fisheries minister Angus McLean once said to me in his office about the Liberals "They know the price of everything but the value of nothing".

The main timing consideration was to get it over with as early in the parliamentary summer recess as possible so it would be forgotten by the fall.