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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

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.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

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.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the states. Or also have states financing. Everything's pretty small.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn't be a consensus.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply excluded from hemispheric affairs. That's a sharp reversal of what was the case not long ago.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.

Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.

We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.

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.

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

We've had great conversations with the United Kingdom and meetings, Israel, Mexico, Japan, China and Canada, really, really productive conversations.