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'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.
Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and ou...
TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.