Senator Yuen Pau Woo

As Canada looks to reclaim a prominent role in peacekeeping, we can look to the example of Lester B. Pearson, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway 60 years ago this month.  Pearson was awarded the 1957 Nobel for his contribution in defusing the Suez Canal crisis. In his capacity then as Canada’s Minister of External Affairs and Representative to the United Nations (UN), he initiated a resolution for the establishment of the UN Emergency Force — the first large-s…

Authors: Senators Lillian Eva Dyck, Victor Oh and Yuen Pau Woo As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation, another anniversary must not go overlooked. May 14, 2017 marks 70 years since the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act, the only law in Canadian history to bar a specific ethnic group from coming to Canada. Today, roughly 1.5 million people of Chinese descent live in Canada. Although most arrived over the past two decades, the first significant wave b…