“The Star-Spangled Banner” was as soon as once more booed in Canada forward of a sporting occasion.
The most recent anti-American show came about on the Scotiabank Enviornment earlier than the Toronto Raptors took on the Los Angeles Clippers. Followers booed the American nationwide anthem as a 15-year-old feminine sang it. A mixture of boos and cheers have been heard earlier than she acquired a powerful applause for the Canadian nationwide anthem, “O, Canada.”
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Raptors forwards, from left, Bruce Brown, Scottie Barnes and Chris Boucher react as followers boo the U.S. nationwide anthem earlier than the Los Angeles Clippers recreation in Toronto, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press through AP)
The theme of Canadians booing the American anthem started Saturday night time because the Ottawa Senators and the Calgary Flames hosted NHL video games.
The boos seemingly occurred as President Donald Trump adopted via on his promise to put tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China. Any vitality assets from Canada could be hit at a ten% fee.
In an announcement obtained by Fox Information Saturday, the Trump administration stated the order is in response to an “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, (that) constitutes a national emergency.”
OTTAWA SENATORS FANS BOO USA NATIONAL ANTHEM AFTER TRUMP ISSUES TARIFFS
Canada’s maple leaf brand at middle court docket earlier than a recreation between the Washington Wizards and Raptors at Scotiabank Enviornment in Toronto, Oct. 20, 2023. (John E. Sokolowski-USA At the moment Sports activities)
Forward of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asserting his resignation, Trump stated he would “love” if Canada might change into the “51st state.”
Trudeau has since lamented the tariffs that the Trump administration has levied.
In a reality sheet launched by the White Home on Saturday, the U.S. is implementing tariffs towards Canada, Mexico and China to carry them accountable “to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.” This “extraordinary threat,” the White Home stated, “constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.”
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The nationwide anthems are sung at Canadian Tire Centre earlier than the NHL recreation between the Ottawa Senators and the Los Angeles Kings on Oct. 14, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada. (André Ringuette/NHLI through Getty Pictures)
Nevertheless, Trudeau claimed that “less than 1% of fentanyl and less than one% illegal crossings into the United States come from Canada.”
FOX Enterprise’ Christopher Guly and the Related Press contributed to this report.
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