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Podcast: Resuming Debate
Episode: EP 77. Budget Breakdown with Banker Turned MP Sandra Cobena
Description: Sandra Cobena is a new MP elected from the Toronto-area riding of Newmarket Aurora. Sandra left a successful career as a senior manager at TD Bank to run for the Conservative Party, and she now sits on the Finance Committee (a very rare appointment for a new MP).In this week’s episode of Resuming Debate, Sandra and I discuss her journey into politics, her take on the nation’s finances, the role of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Mark Carney’s use of tax havens, and the outrageously irresponsible Budget 2025.If y...