Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China’s behalf. – Terry Glavin
If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it’s difficult to belong. – Sibel Kekilli
I grew up in Canada, man – we all had rinks in our backyards because we’d ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink. – Tatiana Maslany
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. – Scott Thompson
‘The Girls,’ by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada. – Stacey D’Erasmo
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act. – Wilfrid Laurier
There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don’t think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. – Stephen Harper
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. – Stockwell Day
Basketball isn’t as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada. – Steve Nash
Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military. – Tom Lantos
As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with ‘all-weather precision strike capabilities’ were a ‘requirement’ for Canada’s overseas operations. – Terry Glavin
There’s no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There’s as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there’s a huge capital requirement to develop that. – T. Boone Pickens
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, ‘Well, what do you need?’ – Steven Wright
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. – William Lyon Mackenzie King
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. – Stephen Harper
The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada. – Virgil Goode
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it’s cheaper, and they don’t care what the location is. – Steve Buscemi
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. – Shane Smith
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. – Stana Katic
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. – Stockwell Day
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. – Stephen Harper