David Grenon started Canada’s national anthem ahead of Game 6 of the World Series with a bright smile and booming voice before making a gesture for the crowd to join in. And did they ever.

By the end, after the awkward flip from French back to English at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, row after row, tier after tier of Blue Jays fans were knocking it out of the park. It wasn’t the usual tepid muttering or vague mouthing of words, but actual singing, with gusto, of a rousing rendition of O Canada.

It was so well received it didn’t make headlines.

It doesn’t always go that way.

Not making headlines, not going viral, not inciting outrage — that’s now the public test for national anthems, because outrage, at least professed outrage, is what follows when musicians change lyrics, deviate from the m

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