Canadians Quotes

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.