Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Honourable senators, erudite, effervescent, elegant and enigmatic, the Honourable Elaine McCoy was a force of nature in the Senate and in all of her life. As someone whose early, formative period in the Senate was shaped by the late Senator McCoy, I’m honoured to pay tribute to her on behalf of the Independent Senators Group. She was, of course, the founding facilitator of the ISG. I remember well the many occasions I visited her in her office on the fifth floor of Centre Block…

As insider debates go, this one is for the cognoscenti. And yet, the issue of how seats on Senate standing committees are assigned is important for what it says about decision-making in Canada’s Upper House. A recent deadlock in negotiations on the allocation of committee seats has exposed different points of view on whether Senators should be able to retain their committee seats if they change affiliation. An agreement has been reached by the leadership of most groups in…

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.