54 Safety Wiener: Agriculture Canada handed $826,000 to Brampton, Ont.’s Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. to help the meat-processing company research a sausage that doesn’t burst open when cooked. In a news release, Pierre Lemieux, the parliamentary secretary for agriculture, said a grant to develop a less-explosive sausage was critical to the government’s focus on “jobs, growth, and long-term prosperity.” Meanwhile: Six months before Alberta’s XL Foods was shut down because of a massive recall of E. coli-tainted meat, the company got a $1.3-million contribution from Ottawa to upgrade its meat-processing facilities (55); The Canada Food Inspection Agency spent $19,900 to ask 1,200 Canadians how to label bottles containing blends of both Canadian and foreign wine—most said “Blended in Canada” (56); Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s sister, Lynn Redford, a health care executive, expensed $3,400 for attending partisan functions (57); Quebec’s state liquor authority, SAQ, paid $24,000 to wine critic James Suckling of Tuscany so he would visit Montreal and review 30 wines, all while denying it gave him any compensation
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