You won’t catch Omar Alghabra in a pair of Jordans.
The federal transport minister has been loyal to the Adidas brand ever since he was a kid playing soccer in Saudi Arabia.
“Adidas was the shoe of choice for kids in the late ’70s and early ’80s,” Alghabra said. The ones known as the “originals” — black with three thick white stripes down the sides — were “a big deal.”
That nostalgia is what drives his current sneaker collection, which often turns heads when he strolls through the corridors on Parliament Hill or attends a G7 meeting, where his counterparts comment on his kicks.
“Positively of course,”
