Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Hill Times Parliament’s two standing joint committees have yet to meet in this Parliament and have not convened since 2019. 'We simply have to find the bandwidth for the joint committee to meet virtually or in a hybrid format,' says Independent Senator Yuen Pau Woo, who is designated to become co-chair of the Scrutiny of Regulations Joint Committee. Read the article

iPolitics Senators have begun discussing how to meet safely next month, given COVID-19 cases in Ontario have spiked — a plan that could move Senate sittings almost entirely off the floor of the upper house and into senators’ homes. It's already very clear that in all other activities of Canadian life, travel is being discouraged. If you extend the logic of limiting travel, you would have to conclude that Parliament has to also follow those guidelines. …