O Canada Quotes

Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

I'm alarmed at what's happening in Canada. I'm vested here.

I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.

I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.

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?

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

I love Canada, always.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

Canada is great! I love Canada. A lot of great things in Canada. I would do anything for love. But I want to live in America.

My goal is to become Canada's first multicultural prime minister and represent the changing face of Canada.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Not only in Canada but in other countries where we have to rely on immigration for our growth, the question of coexistence of values in communities is important. It has to be dealt with.

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.