Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.
Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Love Canada or give it back.
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
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.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.
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