Canadians Quotes
Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.
Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.
Quebec is the original heart the hardest and deepest kernel the core of first time. All round nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.
The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.
It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.
We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?
Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
