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Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared 49 gifts valued up to $1,000 each in 2009, ranging from books to a bathrobe to tequila.
U.S. President Barack Obama gave Harper a leather-bound map from 1783 of the British Territories of Canada and the U.S.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was a generous host at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, giving Harper a monogrammed bathrobe, towel and slipper set, as well as a fine linen table cloth and napkins, a leather briefcase, and a three-volume red-leather set of Who's Who in Italy.
Berlusconi also gave Laureen Harper a black leather jacket made by the Italian-owned Belstaff clothing company.
The tequila came from Emilio González-Márquez, governor of Mexico's state of Jalisco, who presented the prime minister with four bottles of the popular libation during the North American Leaders Summit in Guadalajara in August.
Prince Charles gave Harper a sterling silver box with the royal crest during his Canadian tour in November.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented him with a leather-bound book titled Palestine — Celebrating the Survival.
The gift list also included crystal bookends, sterling silver saki cups, a silver-coated model of the Aztec calendar, an expensive Prim watch and two 18-day free passes to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.
The prime minister's media office didn't answer an email asking whether he or his family used the CNE tickets.
Since 2006, Harper has declared 179 gifts for himself and his wife. The value of any gift cannot exceed $1000.
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