Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. P J O’Rourke
I don’t even know what street Canada is on. Al Capone
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We’re different people from you and we’re different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau
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 believe that Canada cannot, indeed that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united – it should only remain united – if its citizens want to live together in one civil society. Pierre Trudeau
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
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
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Marshall McLuhan
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. Mackenzie King
Canada was built on dead beavers. Margaret Atwood
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. Mordecai Richler
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. Robertson Davies
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‘Am I really that oppressed?’ but ‘Am I really that boring?’ Margaret Atwood
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell. Irving Layton