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Canada’s first Vietnamese-Canadian senator says goodbye to the Red Chamber

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Conservative Thanh Hai Ngo, second from left, retired from the Senate on Jan. 3 after a decade in the Red Chamber. He's pictured in October 2019 with his wife, Hong Nga Nguyen, left, at an event to mark the relationship between Canada and Taiwan, along with Representative Winston Wen-yi Chen and his wife Sylvia Pan.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

January 12, 2022

Conservative Senator Thanh Hai Ngo, the first Canadian senator of Vietnamese origin, has retired after 10 years in the Red Chamber. Ngo reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 for Senators on Jan. ...

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