My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.
I always thought of this as God's country.
If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.
When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.
Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?
The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
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.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.
Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.
Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.
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.
