FILE--Defence Minister Peter MacKay announces that Canada will send HMCS Ville de Quebec to waters off the Horn of Africa to stop pirates from attacking food shipments bound for Somalia, at a news conference in Halifax on Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Senior cabinet minister MacKay approved a $16,800 hospitality bill for a group of civil servants in an apparent bending of government rules, a newly disclosed document shows.
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