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.

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.