Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could not resist taking a jab at US President Donald Trump tonight after his country's hockey team defeated the Americans in a tense finish to the championship final, the BBC reports.
"You can't take our country - and you can't take our game," Trudeau wrote on the social network "X".
In an exciting overtime final of the Four Nations Championship in Boston, Canada defeated the host, the USA, 3-2, amid increasingly tense political relations between the two neighbors on the North American continent.
Not only has Trump's threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian exports to the US, which would be a prelude to an economically damaging trade war between the two neighbors, loomed over relations, but Trump's constant statements that Canada should become the 51st US state are also damaging those relations.
For the past few weeks, whenever the American national anthem is played, Canadian fans have been shouting "woo."
However, tonight it was Americans who shouted "woo" to the Canadian national anthem, while it was sung with different lyrics in protest of Trump's statements about Canada.
The line "in all of us he commands" was intentionally changed to "it's only us who command," a spokesperson for the Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk confirmed to CBC News.
She then posted a photo of the altered lyrics on Instagram and wrote: "We must express our anger at any abuse of power."
Trump wanted to come to the game, but stated on his social network "Truth Social" that he could not make it, but wished the home team luck.
On that occasion, the American president repeated his irritating stance to Canadians that their homeland should become part of the USA.
Trump wrote that he hopes Canada "will one day, and perhaps soon, become our beautiful and very important 51st state."
Hockey is part of Canada's national identity.
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