The singer who performed the Canadian national anthem prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night changed a lyric to “O Canada,” confirming it was done to protest U.S. President Donald Trump talking about the possibility of making her homeland the 51st U.S. state.
Fans in Boston could be heard booing the song, which comes after Canadian fans booed the Star-Spangled Banner at a previous tournament match-up in Montreal last week.
Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from “in all of us command” to “that only us command,” telling the Associated Press in an email statement that she did it “because I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should not have to be defending itself against tyranny and fascism.”
“I’m somebody who grew up on music that spoke to the heart and the moment, and it shaped me as a songwriter and really as a human being,”…
