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.

During a press conference, The Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles noted she had been watching Carney’s facial expressions during the sit-down and was curious as to what had been going through his mind — particularly as Trump spoke about “erasing the artificial border” between America and Canada and mocked Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney met with President Donald Trump at the White House at a tense time for US-Canadian relations.

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a crisis-era Cabinet on Tuesday to confront Donald Trump’s trade war, steady a weakening economy and reset the high-stakes Canada-U.S. relationship. Carney said last month’s federal election delivered his Liberal Party a mandate to redefine Canada’s economic and security relationship with the U.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said emphatically Tuesday that Canada is "not for sale" and "won't be for sale, ever" in an Oval Office meeting with President Trump, moments after Mr. Trump called the border between the U.S. and Canada "artificial" and romanticized the idea of Canada joining the U.S.

President Trump is insisting that there is nothing Prime Minister Carney can do to win relief from him with respect to tariffs. After running hard against the American president during the recent Canadian general election campaign, Mr. Carney praised Mr. Trump while also pushing back on some of his other demands.

U.S. President Donald Trump and new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.