Mark Carney on Erdogan gift in Jeddah

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    Prime Minister Mark Carney joked about the gift exchange with Turkish President Erdogan, saying, "I would like to reassure Canadians, they keep me away from weapons... I felt that my gift of maple syrup was somehow a little below whatever it was." The comments came during a press conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Carney is on an official visit.

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    What went through your mind when you opened the gift from President Erdogan? I never saw it. So, they keep, I would like to reassure Canadians, they keep guns away from me. And so, I never saw it. I did, I learned about it from, I think it was Prime Minister Starmer. But we were, we were, we were having a conversation, a few of us, and he pointed out to me that he'd received this, and it had his name on it. And so I learned about it and then of course my colleagues told me, yeah, we had this. And it's not what I expected. Struck me that my gift of maple syrup kind of undermatched the whatever it was, 357 caliber or whatever. But I also, then the next thing that went through my mind was, okay, this is something for the war museum or the CAF, you know, a CAF museum or something like that where it's, you know, it's interesting and it relates to NATO and the bigger picture of that. And so what's happened is with, it's with the RCMP, it's been decommissioned because not a legal firearm in Canada and I certainly don't have a license for it so it's been decommissioned and we're going to find the best home for it in something like I just described so but yes it was not what I expected