Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Honourable senators, before I begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabe people. I am pleased to open the third reading debate on Bill S-6, an Act respecting regulatory modernization. The bill has returned to the Senate following pre-study by seven committees, consisting of over 21 hours of testimony from 48 witnesses, the summaries of which were provided to the Se…

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.  Tweet