The 4 Nations Face-Off championship game on Thursday between the United States and Canada ended with an exciting 3-2 overtime win for the Great White North, and Canadian patriotism.
The 4 Nations Face-Off championship game on Thursday between the United States and Canada ended with an exciting 3-2 overtime win for the Great White North, and Canadian patriotism and snark were on display both before and after the matchup. First, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Juno-winning singer who belted out Canada’s national anthem ahead of the players taking the ice, subtly tweaked one of the lyrics to «O Canada.»
The song starts out «O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command.» But close listeners of Kreviazuk’s rendition heard her instead sing, «True patriot love that only us command»—a dig against President Trump and his growing insistence that Canada become the 51st state of the US, as confirmed to Postmedia by a Kreviazuk spokesperson.
