The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2002 will ask an Ontario court on Thursday for an urgent order aimed at placing a hold on any money the federal government paid former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr.
Ottawa reportedly paid the Canadian $10.5 million last week pending the outcome of a request to recognize a $134 million American judgment against him.
The 2015 judgment was handed down in favour of Sergeant Chris Speer's widow Tabitha and ex-American soldier Layne Morris.
Khadr has confessed, but recanted, that he threw a grenade that killed Speer and wounded Morris in a battle in Afghanistan when he was 15.
The Canadian government on Friday apologized to Khadr as part of a settlement of his civil lawsuit for breaches of his rights during his U-S imprisonment at Guantanamo.