Michael Bublé struck a pointedly patriotic tone when hosting the Juno Awards on Sunday night as he pushed back at U.S. President Donald Trump amid an escalating tariffs war and talk of turning Canada into the “51st state.”

“Folks, we’re one of a kind. We are beautiful. We are the greatest nation on Earth. And we are not for sale,” the popular crooner told his hometown Vancouver audience when hosting Canada’s music awards. Ever since Trump launched his trade war, set to include a threatened 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada starting April 2, Canadians have responded with a surge of nationalism that has seemingly brought the country together and was echoed by Bublé from his Vancouver award show stage.

“When they go low, we get high, we go high. Probably the same thing,” he jokingly added after an apparent misreading of his opening monologue. “Bottom line, we love this country.