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Flaherty heads to Toronto shoemaker ahead of federal budget next week

By The Canadian Press
February 07 2014 06:01 AM

CP27111992 — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tries on a pair of shoes with Andrew Violi president of Mello Walk Shoes at a pre-budget press event in Toronto on Friday February 7, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

TORONTO – Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is expected to go shoe shopping today ahead of next week’s federal budget.

By tradition, finance ministers wear a new pair of shoes when they deliver the annual budget.

Flaherty is scheduled to do a pre-budget photo opportunity at Mellow Walk Footwear in Toronto.

Mellow Walk bills itself as a maker of fashionable industrial safety footwear.

Flaherty has said he doesn’t expect the budget to be balanced. The Conservatives plan to post a surplus in 2015, just in time for the next election.

The federal budget is expected Feb. 11.

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