It was five years ago this month that Remigio Pereira changed two lines of Canada’s national anthem and replaced them with a politically incorrect phrase while performing at an all-star baseball game, resulting in his firing from pop-opera quartet The Tenors and evaporating his music career. Pereira explained his decision to take such a controversial step in a recent interview with The Epoch Times. “The anthem was the needed platform for people to hear the message. Words mean everything in a song. … Do we want to carry the sword or live life by love?” said Pereira, a multi-platinum and Juno-winning musician who went from serenading presidents and queens to pariah in a matter of hours. “It led to death threats against me. I was fired from my band and then other cancellations came pouring in on other shows. I was blackballed.” During Major League Baseball’s all-star game at Petco …