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Get out the taxpayers’ chequebook, because we are about to write another whopper to yet another suspected terrorist on the grounds, as our prime minister loves to tell us, “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.”

A guess? Probably $10 million or so.

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In other words, the usual sum.

Earlier this week, the Trudeau Liberals decided to ditch settlement talks with Sudanese-Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who is suing the federal government for $27 million over a six-year ordeal of purported custody, torture and exile in his home country of Sudan after CSIS alleged, apparently wrongly, that he was an al-Qaeda operative.

Instead of cutting him a cheque, therefore, the Liberals decided at the 11th hour to roll the dice and take a chance with the courts.

This is foreign territory for the government.

In fact, a full-fledged mediation conference to settle the Abdelrazik case was apparently about to begin but, 24 hours later, the Trudeau government pulled the plug on it.