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He would have taken you out himself with the old Shawinagan handshake.It's astounding how poorly protected many world leaders (and former ones, I guess) are. When Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien visited the major electronic games developer I worked at in Vancouver in the late 1990s the RCMP guards were absolute shit. They stood around in shades looking cool, but I was after shaking his hand able to walk right behind the man about a foot away, easily within shanking distance and there were so many others close by I could probably have stabbed or shot him in the kidneys and gotten away in the crowd.
I liked the man so only had that thought in the abstract of how poorly protected he was. No US presidential guard would have allowed me anywhere near that kind of proximity after a handshake, I would have been tackled for even walking around him the way I did Chretien.
Poor Abe.
In context of my story, Canada is a G7 nation. And the PMs Mountie guard sucks.