Snazzy shoes: what Canada’s finance ministers wore on their feet on budget day

Ralph Goodale, then the finance minister, shows off to journalists his new square-toed $250 Ecco shoes with polyurethane soles on Feb. 23, 2005 in the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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March 22, 2017

OTTAWA—No one knows the origins of why Canada's federal finance minister buys a new pair of shoes to deliver the budget every year, but it's believed the tradition started in 1960 when Progressive Conservative finance minister Donald Fleming bought a new pair of shoes for the occasion. Ever since...

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