Reception expenses apply to meals at restaurants (lunch and supper the day of the presentation of the seminar or workshop or possibly the evening before) with the lecturer and some colleagues. For CIREQ-Concordia or CIREQ-McGill lecturers, you are to follow the rules of those institutions for reimbursements.

For CIREQ-University of Montreal lecturers, http://www.cireq.umontreal.ca/intranet/invites-recept.html.