Cutlass RS availability in Canada

I’m interested in a Cutlass RS (SSS config) and for some reason I’m having a hard time finding them around here. I live in Toronto where you would expect the highest availability, but Long & McQuade (our nation-wide music store) only has 3 colours of the HSS model on their website, and they’re all back ordered 6 months. Other music stores in Toronto and in Canada don’t have much more, if anything.

So what’s up with that?

PS I contacted Sweetwater to see if they’d ship here and they said they could probably make an exception but I would have to pay duties, which would be brutal on a $2149 USD guitar, warranty would be void, etc etc