The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

What is it with the jocularity of the Canadian government?

All these weird traditions and witty humour up on Parliament Hill and anywhere they make a speech.

The BC finance minister kept with tradition by wearing a new pair of shoes while announcing the latest budget.

The problem is that her shoes happened to be $600 Guccis, not exactly the image most Canadians want portrayed by their budget-conscious finance ministers.

The minister thought it would be funny to wear the $600 shoes along with her string pearls and stated,

"I believe strongly in infrastructure investment; my shoes are amortized over 20 years."

Whoo boy, *wipes tears*, those politicians can be funny.

As a result of her attempt at a one-liner, she's taking the heat now for being seen as an eccentric, spendthrifty politician. But, as her defense, she claims that she wore 15 year old shoes at the last budget update and that the jacket she was wearing this time was from back when the mini-skirt was popular.

So, basically what she's saying is that she generally has poor taste in clothing. But, at least her pearls and Guccis make up for it.

Frankly, I couldn't care less, but this does make for a slightly humorous article. And, being a gal, I enjoyed writing this simply because it's a l story about a girl and her Guccis.