Budget : More of the shoes manufactured in Mexico

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Olivier Charbonneau

Friday, February 23, 2018 14:49

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Friday, February 23, 2018 14:49

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The minister of Finance of Canada has stopped his choice on a pair of shoes to$400.

Bill Morneau was on the side of Toronto on Friday to present the shoes that he will wear during the presentation of his budget next Tuesday. They will be made of calf leather and deer. He has still chosen to wear with the canadian company Poppy Barley, which manufactures its shoes in Mexico.

“Last year when I bought the pair of shoes from Poppy Barley, the Mexicans were really happy. […] It shows that Canada and Mexico can work together. “

Our co-founder @KendallBarber snaps a “selfeet” with Canada’s Finance Minister @Bill_Morneau this morning at Rose Avenue Junior Public School in Toronto. The Minister will announce the budget on Tuesday in his @PoppyBarleyMen shoes >> https://t.co/O5v5XWacrs pic.twitter.com/VmeBmdFgeF

— Poppy Barley (@PoppyBarley) February 23, 2018

The minister of Finance has taken the following questions from the students present during the session of photos. But he admitted to not being able to give too many clues about the content of the budget prior to the formal filing.

Leaving the children (and the Canadians) on their hunger.

Tradition

It is a tradition for Finance ministers buy new shoes in the days before the budget, and normally it is used to give some clues about the content of the ad.

The Library of the Parliament posted on its website the models chosen by the different ministers and the first to have done would be Donald Fleming, head of finance under John Diefenbaker, in march 1960.

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