Here's the thing: You can buy life-size cutouts of Justin Trudeau. The website HistoricalCutouts.com offers them for sale at the bargain price of $59.99, along with cardboard versions of royals, like the Queen—and even ships, like the Titanic. (I know!)
That's the good news! Now for the bad news: according to the CBC, the Canadian government has banned Canadian diplomats from using these two-dimensional Trudeaus at promotional events. Perhaps that's because they knew that everyone would just, you know, want to pose with them:
The CBC reports that the cutouts were spied at Austin's SXSW festival this month and at the Canadian embassy in Washington last year. Michael O'Shaughnessy of Canada's Global Affairs department told the CBC that they were aware of Trudeau's doppelgangers, explaining that "the missions have been asked to no longer use these for their events."
It seems that, sadly, thanks to this new rule, you won't be seeing them around much anymore. Or is that really the case? We couldn't help but notice that there's no ban on acquiring and displaying a Justin Trudeau for private use. Innnnnnteresting. A cardboard Trudeau would go really great with my Justin Trudeau finger puppet and my leggings printed with the Canadian Prime Minister's face, don't you think?
