Canadian teenager pop star Justin Bieber is not welcomed home.

The Toronto crowd booed when the 18-year-old pop star’s face popped up on the JumboTron screen. They booed when a host spoke his name. And they booed as he took the stage and throughout his medley of the chart-topper Boyfriend and the disco-inflected Beauty and a Beat.

If Bieber was bothered, it didn’t show.

“Thank you so much Canada,” Bieber said. “I love you.”

Earlier in the week, Bieber was presented with a Diamond Jubilee Medal by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and caused a scene by wearing overalls, unbuttoned on one shoulder, over a white T-shirt, with a backwards baseball cap.

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There was sufficient uproar that Harper even weighed in on Twitter.

“In fairness to (Bieber),” Harper tweeted, “I told him I would be wearing my overalls too.”

The Canadian Football League may have been hoping to court Bieber’s army of tween followers on Sunday. But recent Grey Cup half-time performers have skewed toward the comparatively heavy likes of Nickelback and Lenny Kravitz.

“J-Biebs doesn’t scream football, you know? Neither does Carly Rae Jepsen,” said Calgary’s Ryan Prisque, 22.

The 27-year-old Jepsen also received a mixed reaction at first on Sunday but won the crowd over during an enthusiastic medley of her latest single, This Kiss, and her infectious hit Call Me Maybe.

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