Carney says gun gifted by Erdogan was unexpected

What went through your mind when you opened the gift from President Erdogan?

I never saw it.I would like to reassure Canadians, they keep guns away from me.So I never saw it.

I learned about it from, I think it was Prime Minister Starmer, but we were We were having a conversation, a few of us, and he pointed out to me that he'd received this.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.it struck me that my gift of maple syrup kind of undermatched, 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, it's with the RCMP.It's been decommissioned because it's 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.