Senators voted not to allow the introduction of a motion by Independent Senators Group Leader Yuen Pau Woo (British Columbia) that, if introduced and voted through, would have set up the Senate’s Finance and Social Affairs committees and assigned them to study the government’s response to the pandemic.
However, the leader of the Senate Conservatives, Sen. Don Plett (Landmark, Man.), and the leader of the informal Progressive Senate Group, Sen. Jane Cordy (Nova Scotia), placed the blame squarely on Sen. Woo for the Senate’s rejection of his motion, in letters obtained by The Hill Times.
Sen. Cordy said in a letter to other Senate leaders that Sen. Woo’s letter “misrepresented” the series of events that led up to the rejection of his motion to establish oversight committees.
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