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OTTAWA — In his first major interview since an Alberta judge ruled his war crimes sentence has expired, a composed Omar Khadr appeared Sunday night on the ferociously popular Quebec talk show Tout le monde en parle.

Walking out to greet the Montreal studio audience in a blue-grey suit jacket, Khadr got a standing ovation, then settled in for a 14-minute chat during which he faced plenty of tough questions from host Guy A. Lepage.

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The quintessential Radio-Canada program, Tout le monde en parle regularly attracts more than a million viewers. Its guests are a who’s-who of francophone culture and current affairs, and it is a key venue in which politicians and other public figures — including those from English Canada — try to make an impression on a Quebec audience, risking widespread criticism in the province if their appearance goes poorly.

Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 as a 15-year-old, injured by the same firefight in which U.S. soldier Christopher Speer was killed, and held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison. In 2010 he was dealt an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple crimes, including the murder of Speer, in front of a since-discredited U.S. military commission.