It would appear the Trudeau Liberals’ magic number for surrender is $10 million, give or take a few hundred thousand.

For Omar Khadr, convicted terrorist, bomb maker, and former Guantanamo detainee who later denied wrongdoing, the payout in July was $10.5 million for Canada’s purported role in violating his rights as a Canadian citizen.For Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian arrested in the United States in the wake of 9/11, and deported to a torturous time in Syria for wrongly being linked to al-Qaeda, the payout by Canadian taxpayers for his detention and torture was $10.5 million.

Now, it’s a $31 million payout for three Canadians tortured in Syria after being wrongly targeted as potential terrorists.

Thirty-one million divided by three, and there’s the magic $10-million number that the federal Liberals have seemingly adopted whenever they get out both the white flag and the cheque book.

Despite details not being forthcoming on who got what, and how much, it essentially boils down to at least $10 million each for Abdullah Almalki, Muayyed Nureddin and Ahmad El Maati.

If it’s a contest, then Khadr and Arar win.

As far as Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is concerned, however, the $31-million payout to this latest trio of mistaken terrorists actually saved Canadian taxpayers nearly $70 million, since the threesome had gone to court seeking $100 million.

That’s how Liberal logic works.

With this most recent payout, the Trudeau government once again chose not to fight a lawsuit that should have been challenged.

A 2008 judicial inquiry determined Canadian security officials, while laying a hand on no one, had “contributed” to the torture of Almalki, Nureddin and El Maati by sharing intelligence information with international agencies.

The inquiry also found that foreign affairs, CSIS and the RCMP had “made mistakes” in connection with the cases.

Considering the healthy pay outs, the Trudeau Liberals are prepared to pay, perhaps Canada should withdraw itself from all international efforts to fight terrorism just in case more “mistakes” are made along with way.

There is no question what happened to Almalki, Nureddin and El Maati should be wished upon no one. They have never been charged with any terrorist act.

All three, arrested in Syria at different times, aroused suspicions because it was a post 9/11 world, full of fear and tension.

El Maati, a former trucker, was arrested in November 2001 after flying to Syria to celebrate his wedding. The RCMP suspected him of planning an attack on nuclear facilities in Canada because of an incriminating map found in his truck.

Almalki, an Ottawa-based engineer, was arrested in Syria in 2002, and held for 22 months, after CSIS and the RCMP sent out an international alert putting him on a watch list.

He made a confession about being a member of al-Qaeda, but later retracted, saying had been tortured out of him by a series of lashings.

And Nureddin, a principal at an Islamic school in Toronto, was arrested after crossing into Syria from Iraq in 2003, and being the subject in a bulletin from Canada to the CIA.

All “mistakes.”

So, what now, then?

With $10-million payouts piling up, will the RCMP and CSIS now become gun shy about sending out the next bulletin on a suspected terrorist for fear they might be making another “mistake?”

It’s a frightening thought if that were to happen, and they weren’t wrong.