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A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

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.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

(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.

Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.