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

Pres. Trump and newly elected Canadian PM Mark Carney, who won office by campaigning against Trump's tariffs, met for the first time in the Oval Office amid growing tensions between the two countries.