Mark Carney’s last exclamation upon exiting press conference today – “We stand with Denmark, we stand with Greenland…. “our closest partnership is with the United States”.

The statement is in context with him about to commit military resources to Ukraine in context of the Ukraine/ Russia peace plan. He also referenced the U.S. as being a “backstop” for the peace plan as if Canadian peace keepers would be aligned first in Ukraine ahead of U.S. military.

He looked charismatic as ever with exception to natural struggles with his second language. It was also interesting that his first question on Venezuela was handled in French. Mr. Carney is walking the tight rope on his handling of this U.S. expropriation of Venezuelan oil in context with obvious diplomatic negotiations on Ukraine and the trade war ongoing.

He has also offered that Canadian oil will be viewed as less risky on world markets without outright condemning U.S. oil in Venezuela. He definitely looked uncomfortable on this topic with a deep sigh upon taking the question. He did envision the prospect of a functioning democracy in Venezuela.