canada

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.

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?

Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

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

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

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.