“The Star-Spangled Banner” was as soon as once more booed in Canada forward of a sporting occasion.
The newest anti-American show happened on the Scotiabank Area 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 had 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 sport in Toronto, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press by way of AP)
The theme of Canadians booing the American anthem started Saturday evening because the Ottawa Senators and the Calgary Flames hosted NHL video games.
The boos seemingly occurred as President Donald Trump adopted by way of 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 mentioned the order is in response to an “extraordinary risk posed by unlawful aliens and medicines, together with lethal fentanyl, (that) constitutes a nationwide emergency.”
OTTAWA SENATORS FANS BOO USA NATIONAL ANTHEM AFTER TRUMP ISSUES TARIFFS
Canada’s maple leaf brand at heart courtroom earlier than a sport between the Washington Wizards and Raptors at Scotiabank Area in Toronto, Oct. 20, 2023. (John E. Sokolowski-USA At present Sports activities)
Forward of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asserting his resignation, Trump mentioned he would “love” if Canada might grow to be the “51st state.”
Trudeau has since lamented the tariffs that the Trump administration has levied.
In a truth 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 guarantees of halting unlawful immigration and stopping toxic fentanyl and different medication from flowing into our nation.” This “extraordinary risk,” the White Home mentioned, “constitutes a nationwide emergency beneath the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act.”
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The nationwide anthems are sung at Canadian Tire Centre earlier than the NHL sport between the Ottawa Senators and the Los Angeles Kings on Oct. 14, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada. (André Ringuette/NHLI by way of Getty Photos)
Nonetheless, Trudeau claimed that “lower than 1% of fentanyl and fewer than one% unlawful crossings into the US come from Canada.”
FOX Enterprise’ Christopher Guly and the Related Press contributed to this report.
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