Canadian Sayings And Quotes

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“The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.”
– Marshall McLuhan

“It is the task of the rising generation of Canadians to create a new confidence and a new sense of cultural and civic duty in Canada. Unless we achieve some success on this front, and I believe we are beginning to do so, the very real attractions of the vigorous society to the South of us may attract too many of our able people. Then the human resources and skills required to shape and direct a complex industrial economy will simply not be available to us in Canada.”
– Mitchell Sharp

“As far as I’m concerned, I wouldn’t want to go to any other country. It’s good enough here.”
– Orviel Kruse

“Canadians don’t deal with the same kind of health care problems and traumas we face. They have a health care system based on treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“America’s attic.”
– Patrick Anderson

“Canadians don’t have a very big political lever, we’re nice guys.”
– Paul Henderson

“Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed – something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure.”
– Paul Kopas

“A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.”
– Pierre Berton

“Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.”
– Pierre Trudeau

“I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.”
– Pierre Trudeau

“Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.”
– Pierre Trudeau

“Fuddle Duddle.”
– Pierre Trudeau

“Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.”
– Richard Benner

“Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.”
– Richard Staines

“The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend… and sometimes we’d like to give them such a smack!”
– Rick Mercer

“For some reason a glaze passes over people’s faces when you say “Canada”. Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.”
– Sandra Gotlieb

“If you don’t believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin’ someplace else.”
– Stompin’ Tom Connors

“Canada’s national bird is the grouse.”
– Stuart Keate

“In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it’s cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.”
– Stuart Keate

“Canada is an interesting place, the rest of the world thinks so, even if Canadians don’t.”
– Terence M. Green

“Canada is one of the planet’s most comfortable, and caring, societies. The United Nations Human Development Index cited the country as the most desirable place in the world to live. This year a World Bank study named Canada the globe’s second wealthiest society after Australia.”
– Time magazine

“Canada is probably the most free country in the world where a man still has room to breathe, to spread out, to move forward, to move out, an open country with an open frontier. Canada has created harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, and it must take this experience to the world because there is yet to be such an example of harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups.”
– Valentyn Moroz

“I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from folklore to history to political manifestos… I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.”
– Will Ferguson

“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.”
– Will Ferguson

“The romantic life of each colony also has a special flavour – Australian rhyme is a poetry of the horse; Canadian, of the canoe.”
– William Douw Lighthall

“Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.”
– Winston Churchill

“There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.”
– Winston Churchill

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