Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Honourable senators, we are giving our consideration to Bill S-217 at a time of great stress in the international system and, more importantly, great human suffering in Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion of that country. It is no surprise that many commentaries on this bill start with the deplorable war in Ukraine and use the fact of Russian aggression as the reasoning — indeed, as a kind of slam dunk — for approving this bill. There is a case for supporting this…

Derek Burney’s blistering attack on my recent speech in the Senate reveals more about the toxic nature of debates on China, than it does about what I said. He is entitled to disagree with my vote against the motion labelling the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang a genocide and moving the Olympics away from China. What is unacceptable is his distortion of my speech and the use of a xenophobic trope. Burney is right that I compared Canada’s history of residential…

Senator Woo participated in the Ditchley conference focused on The new space race and its intersection with power, the rules-based order and the economy. The conference was not only about the science of space but rather how national and commercial moves in space intersect with other technologies, political power, a rules-based order and the economy.