Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Hon. Yuen Pau Woo: I rise on a point of order. Your Honour, in the same way that you have admonished us at the start of the new session to watch our comportment, to watch our decorum and to watch our words, I would like to raise a profound issue I have with the use of a term that undermines the meaning of our institution, which is not captured in our Rules of the Senate of Canada or in the Parliament of Canada Act, and which is fundamentally deeply insulting to ma…

Why do some Canadians bristle at the suggestion that recent reporting on foreign interference in our democracy encourages racism? Setting aside partisan point-scoring, let's assume that the reason is an inability to see how genuine concern about foreign interference could be construed as racist. Revelations about foreign interference reported by the Globe and Mail and Global News have been based on selectively leaked classified documents from anonymous sources. None of it has b…

Jakarta, Indonesia The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo, Head of the Canadian Delegation Your Excellency Dr Puan Maharini, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia and President of AIPA 44, Heads of AIPA Delegations, Secretary General of AIPA, Secretary General of ASEAN, distinguished guests, Tuan Tuan dan Puan Puan, Assalamalaikum, good afternoon. It is my pleasure to offer some brief remarks at this first plenary session of the 44th AIPA meeting on behalf o…