Conservative activists discovered that the Canadian Embassy last June paid $147.79 for a rush order on a Trudeau cutout from HistoricalCutouts.com, a Pennsylvania company.
Conservatives have seized on the cutouts as a partisan waste of taxpayer money and an insult to Canadian political tradition.
Highly sensitive to accusations that Mr. Trudeau lacks the gravitas of a world leader, the governing Liberal Party has long sought to balance his brand as celebrity and statesman.
?We are aware of instances where our missions in the United States had decided to purchase and use these cutouts,? the Global Affairs Canada spokesman, Michael O?Shaughnessy, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.
PhotoHe was the consummate politician: tall, dapper and always willing to be trotted out for public appearances, even when someone licked his face.
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