Canada's Justin Trudeau cuddles with baby pandas

Just when you thought Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn't get anymore charming, he went and hugged some pandas.
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Megan Specia
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Just when you thought Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn't get anymore charming, he went and hugged some pandas.

Trudeau cuddled with the first panda cubs born on Canadian soil on Monday, and he introduced them to the nation at a naming ceremony at the Toronto Zoo.


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"I can assure you my children are jealous I just got to hold those pandas," Trudeau said during a press conference. 

Trust us, Trudeau, everyone else was jealous those pandas got to hold you. 

The pandas were born at Toronto Zoo in late 2015, and are now officially 100 days old. The pandas were named Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue, which means "Canadian hope" and "Canadian joy," in a ceremony with local and Chinese leaders.

Trudeau called the cubs a symbol of Canada's strong relationship with China, and said he had received a message of congratulations from Chinese premier Li Keqiang.

The cubs marked their 100th day in January and are now considered to have survived their infancy.


In addition to being really, really ridiculously good-looking, Trudeau has been charming liberals the world over with his focus on human rights, climate change and LGBT rights since taking office in November.  

But the pandas seem to have put people over the edge.






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Megan Specia

Megan Specia was Mashable's Assistant Real-Time News Editor and joined the team in September 2014. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of New Hampshire after growing up in the Jersey 'burbs. She made her way to New York via a four year stopover in Dublin. Megan previously worked as a journalist and editor at Storyful in both Dublin and New York. Before all of that, though, her claim to fame was as head cake arranger and purveyor of all things sweet at Queen of Tarts cafe in Dublin, where she developed a serious addiction to macarons.

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