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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Jewish Canadians ‘have another very strong voice in Ottawa’, rookie Tory MPs promise
Description: Now into their third week as officially-sworn in members of Canada’s 45th Parliament, newly elected Conservative MPs Tamara Kronis and Roman Baber are getting used to their new seats in the backbenches of the House of Commons. They have plenty in common: both trained as lawyers, grew up in Toronto, and, in the 2025 federal election, managed to flip their ridings blue for the first time in a decade.
And on top of all that, both are the offspring of Jewish immigrant families, although Baber’s Canadian passport is much more recent.
This is Kronis’s first time in politi...