Conservative Senator questions House’s speedy passage of Homolka bill

The House of Commons deal means there will be no public record of why MPs wanted to pass the 'Karla Homolka Act' so quickly or what they intended when they drafted it.

One of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new Conservative Senators has questioned the way all four parties in the House of Commons bypassed normal Parliamentary screening and hastily passed a criminal pardon bill dubbed the "Karla Homolka Act" in a few seconds before taking off for Parliament's sum...

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