Flavours of Canada: politicos dish out their favourite recipes

Canada's food, like its people, is a multicultural mishmash. 'As we welcome new Canadians, they bring their own recipe books with them and we get some adaptations,' says Liberal Sen. Terry Mercer.
Senator Mobina Jaffer serves a traditional Indian dessert, gulab jamun, a kind of doughnut served in warm, spiced syrup.
What's a typical Canadian food? Poutine or Nanaimo bars, you might say. Maybe ketchup chips or Kraft Dinner. Some kids in British Columbia, the province Senator Mobina Jaffer represents, likely see the traditional Indian dessert gulab jamun as a B.C. food, she says, "because every restaurant has it...

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