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 don't even know what street Canada is on. — Al Capone
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. — Tommy Douglas
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
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. — Sidney Altman
Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset. — Aga Khan IV
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world. — John Diefenbaker
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them. — Pierre Trudeau
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. — Emily Carr
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! — John A. Macdonald
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. — Tommy Douglas
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone. — Sayings
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country. — Emily Murphy
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another. — Pierre Trudeau
Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo". — Mike Huckabee
Short Canada Quotes
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. — Farley Mowat
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. — John Diefenbaker
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. — Paul Prudhomme
The United States and Canada are a triumph of geography over history. — Tim Marshall
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. — Emily Carr
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else. — Pierre Trudeau
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. — Jay Baruchel
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. — Billy Sherwood
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. — George Best
In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist' — Pamela Geller
Canada Image Quotes
Canada Day Quotes
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
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. — Alan Bradley
When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. — Jane Fonda
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks. — Farley Mowat
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Berton
I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. — Jon Stewart
If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else. — Stompin' Tom Connors
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A. — John Maynard Keynes
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world — Winston Churchill
Happy Canada Day Quotes
Canada is the greatest nation in this country. — Allan A. Lamport
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear. — Will Ferguson
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. — Shiv Khera
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
I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons. — John Turner
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. — Marshall McLuhan
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. — Pierre Trudeau
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. — Marshall McLuhan
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. — Andy Barrie
Canada Funny Quotes
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart. — Pierre Trudeau
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. — Brendan Behan
That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year. — Murray Walker
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank. — Douglas Coupland
Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better. — George W. Bush
Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts. — Steve Miller
We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be. — Bob Rae
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! — Norm MacDonald
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. — Charlie Chaplin
Canada And The United States Quotes
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. — Henry Ford
Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are. — Robert Breault
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. — J. Philippe Rushton
The relationship between Canada and the United States serves as a model for the world. Our shared values, deep cultural ties, and strong integrated economies will continue to provide the basis for advancing our strong and prosperous partnership. — Justin Trudeau
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. — Noam Chomsky
Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully. — Paul Cellucci
Canada has no closer friend, partner, and ally than the United States. We look forward to working very closely with President-elect Trump, his administration, and with the United States Congress in the years ahead, including on issues such as trade, investment, and international peace and security. — Justin Trudeau
It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me. — Ann Coulter
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide. — Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Western Canada Quotes
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society. — Stephen Harper
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done — Bobby Hull
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. — Preston Manning
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. — Barbara Amiel
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada. — T. E. Hulme
Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada. — Ann Coulter
Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it. — Preston Manning
No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies. — Michael Ignatieff
Research and technology parks are an important part of the innovation infrastructure in Canada. Our Government's investment will increase the foreign profile of western Canadian companies, create new jobs, and stimulate economic growth. — Michelle Rempel
Canadian Quotes
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate. — Pierre Trudeau
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. — Ted Nugent
We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy. — Pierre Trudeau
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. — Stephen Harper
To the north, above the Great Lakes, lies the Canadian Shield, the world’s largest area of Precambrian Rock, much of which forms a barrier to human settlement. — Tim Marshall
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea. — Mike Johanns
Canadians pay half their income in taxes, wait 2 years to see a specialist, and bleed for 18 hours in an ER next to a dozen addicts looking for free drugs, and then rave about how awesome it is that they have free healthcare. — Saifedean Ammous
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all! — Alexander Graham Bell
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian. — Duke Ellington
Canadian Government Quotes
Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all. — Jean Chretien
Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders. — Stephen Harper
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. — Stockwell Day
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government. — Stephen Harper
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army. — Conan O'Brien
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. — Kim Campbell
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. — Stephen Harper
Our Government is pleased to invest in increasing export market access for the western Canadian lamb industry. By further strengthening this industry, we are helping producers create economic growth and long-term prosperity. — Michelle Rempel
Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace. — Michelle Rempel
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that. — Hawa Abdi
Being Canadian Quotes
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. — Michael Buble
You can't be Canadian without being aware of at least one other country, the United States, 'cause it's so important to us. I think we sometimes like to think that, you know, Americans will pay attention to us from time to time, too. — Justin Trudeau
Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it. — Jason Reitman
I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them! — John Diefenbaker
Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her! — Wilder Penfield
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. — Lawren Harris
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship. — Nellie L. McClung
Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us — Grimes
I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian. — K. D. Lang
Toronto Quotes
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper. — Paulo Costanzo
I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it. — Mary-Kate Olsen
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. — Walter Kohn
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. — Rick Danko
I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home. — Rob Ford
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. — Rob Ford
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. — Wyndham Lewis
To me, Toronto is a good party city, I think Vancouver has the best smoke, you know. And then, Montreal has the best..uh..Chinese food? — Kid Ink
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto. — Robbie Robertson
The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada! — Randy Orton
I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it. — Louis Riel
It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time. — Tommy Douglas
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future. — Lester B. Pearson
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high. — Nellie L. McClung
The melting of the ice cap already allows cargo ships to make the journey through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian archipelago for several summer weeks a year, thus cutting a week from the transit time from Europe to China. The first cargo ship not to be escorted by an icebreaker went through in 2014 between Canada and China — a 40% shorter route and using deeper waters than if it had gone through the Panama Canal. This allowed the ship to carry more cargo, save tens of thousands of dollars in fuel costs, and reduced the ship’s greenhouse gas emissions by 1,300 metric tons. By 2040, the route is expected to be open for up to two months each year. — Tim Marshall
My family and I were welcomed to Canada more than 40 years ago. We sought and obtained refuge in a liberal, modern, and secular society, and put the ugliness of genocidal religious hate and associated tribalism behind us - or so we thought. — Gad Saad
I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees. — Ryan Reynolds
I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they gave my family protection. I did my best to pay that country back, and I think I did that. — Chamath Palihapitiya
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison. — Stephen Harper
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
Russia and Norway have a dispute over the Svalbard Islands, the northernmost point on earth with a settled population. Most countries recognize the islands as being under Norwegian sovereignty, but the biggest island has a growing population of Russian migrants who have assembled around the coal-mining industry there. The mines are not profitable, but the Russian community serves as a useful tool in furthering Moscow’s claims on the islands. Norway knows what is coming and has made the Arctic its foreign policy priority. Its air force regularly intercepts Russian fighter jets approaching its borders; the heightened tensions have caused it to move the center of military operations from the south to the north, and it is building an Arctic battalion. Canada and Denmark are expanding their Arctic military capabilities as well. — Tim Marshall
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south. — Greg Walden
In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. — Ronald Reagan
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there. — Chamath Palihapitiya
The railroad business is one of the great businesses of the world...first of all, they’re not going to build a new one right? If you own the second largest railroad in Canada...That’s Canadian Pacific. You know it’s an asset that was created 150 or 60 years ago...the replacement cost of the railroad is you know, hundreds of billions of dollars. — Bill Ackman
I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. — George Strait
There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground. — Justin Trudeau
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! — Matt Groening
The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada. — Jerome Corsi
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. — Andrei Gromyko
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