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A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

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

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.