Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
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.
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
If ever Confederation fails it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.
One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue foreign ideals foreign religion with centuries of ignorance and oppressio...
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Love Canada or give it back.
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its s...
The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant Cana...
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you...
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.