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Here is a trivia question for you: what pastry dessert is sticky sweet on the inside with a flaky crust on the outside, and is as much a part of Canadian culture as the game of hockey or a birch-bark canoe?

The answer: the butter tart. In fact, most Canadians don’t realize that this dessert is uniquely ours. Butter tarts come in more than a dozen varieties. Just ask Linda Reader, the economic development officer