G7 to be offered seal meat

Published February 3, 2010

Finance ministers and central bankers at this week's G7 meeting in Iqaluit will be served raw seal meat and given seal-skin mittens and vests as parting gifts, the Canadian Press reported, despite an EU ban on the products. Officials from the UK, France, Germany and Italy are all part of the event, where they will also sit on seal-skin upholstered chairs in the National Assembly. A senior Canadian finance official denied the G7 location is intended to prove a...