The Bernardo-Homolka legal proceedings and the disgraceful double standard that got Homolka a comparative slap on the wrist instead of life in the slammer was entirely a provincial matter and had nothing to do with Mulroney.  The gullible, ideologically driven morons to blame for this one were NDPers in charge in Ontario, mainly the Attorney General Marion Boyd.  Ms. Boyd was the first non-lawyer and hopefully the last to be Ontario's chief law officer (although some claim she watched a lot of Perry Mason re-runs).  At the time, she was running an offensive multi-million dollar ad program depicting males as violent women beaters and exploiters and by inference women as helpless pawns of their male partners.  So her ignorance of the law and her serious bias in male-female matters plus an excellent lawyer (Rosen if memory serves) made her easy pickings for this dreadful deal. 

A disaster, Boyd was looking favourably upon the limited use of sharia law in Ontario when the NDP lost in 1995