Sneakers of the House: Canada's MPs embrace comfort, style in office footwear trend

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,”