canadians

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

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.

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

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 smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.

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.

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.

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.