Well, at least he didn’t walk out.

While U.S. President Donald Trump left the G7 meeting in Kananaskis Monday night, it wasn’t in the huff the world witnessed at Charlevoix in 2018. This time, after a day of huddles and the signing of a U.K.–U.S. mini-deal that slashed auto tariffs, Trump hurried back to the White House because of “what’s going on in the Middle East.”

His exit left Prime Minister Mark Carney and the remaining five leaders to hammer out the rest of the agenda, from trade to security to artificial intelligence, while keeping a nervous eye on the Iran-Israel war.

Throughout the meeting, Carney didn’t step on any mines, but did make a major pivot. In welcoming Trump to Canada, Carney diplomatically thanked him “for his leadership” and that of the United States in the G7, and praised Trump further at the start of the meeting. It’s a far cry from his tone during the spring election campaign, when Carney depicted Trump as an existential menace to Canadian sovereignty that only he and the........

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