Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little neighborliness, at least the type used on neighbors one likes.

A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a subtle but sharp response when asked what he was really thinking during Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. During a press conference,