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Jewish Canadians ‘have another very strong voice in Ottawa’, rookie Tory MPs promise

JL;DR SUMMARY New Conservative MPs Tamara Kronis and Roman Baber, both with Jewish immigrant backgrounds, are finding their footing in Canada's Parliament. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Jewish CommunityJewish RepresentationFree SpeechOpioid CrisisCanadian ParliamentTamara KronisConservative MpsRoman Baber

Places mentioned

Nanaimo Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
"That's the voice of Tamara Kronis, the new Conservative MP for Nanaimo Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, standing up in the House of Commons earlier this week."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"For the two and a half weeks since she first took her seat in the back row of the House, right in front of the curtain, Kronis has weighed in on other pressing political issues, especially the opioid overdoses, killing people in her riding, and homelessness."
York Centre, Ontario, Canada
"Baber's Toronto-area constituency, York Centre, has the fourth-largest Jewish population in the country and has been the target of many anti-Semitic hate crimes there since October 7th."
Toronto Centre, Ontario, Canada
"Liberal Evan Solomon took the Toronto Centre riding."
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"I spoke to Kronis in Ottawa on May 30th, at the end of her first week in Parliament, where she just had a meeting with SIJA."
Israel
"Born in St. Petersburg in 1980, his family moved to Israel first, then to the York Centre area of Toronto when he was 15."
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