Canada Quotes

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

National unity, if it is to mean anything in the deeply personal sense must be founded on confidence in one’s own individual identity; out of this can grow respect for that of others and a willingness to share ideas, attitudes, and assumptions. A vigorous policy of multiculturalism will create this initial confidence. It can form […]

There are few policies potentially more disastrous for Canada than to tell all Canadians that they must be alike. 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 […]

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed… It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people… Society must take every means at its disposal to defend […]

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Canadians don’t deal with the same kind of health care problems and traumas we face. They have a health care system based on treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels.

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

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.