The Canadian PM is navigating his role as a diplomat and statesman—not a politician on the campaign trail, writes David Moscrop.

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

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.