Rebekah Young is the Director of Fiscal & Provincial Economics
at Scotiabank. With prior experience working with the IMF,
and as a former senior official at the Department of Finance in
Ottawa, she has addressed a range of topics, from development
economics, to the federal budget, to green finance issues.
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