Canada Quotes - Page 12

• Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.

  Jean Chretien

  Responsibility, Years, Aftermath

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• If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

  Jean Chretien

  Military, Iraq, Action

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• If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mutual Respect, Mutual, Ifs

  Pierre Trudeau's televised address, November 24, 1976.

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• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

  Bob Schaffer

  Mother, Children, Ukrainian

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Reality, Thinking

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• New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

  Marc Garneau

  Technology, Safety, Achievement

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• We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

  Kim Campbell

  Greatness, Unity, Citizens

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Rick Larsen

  Winter, Opportunity, Games

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• I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Native American, Poetry, Body

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• 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

  Irving Layton

  Usa, United States, Looks

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

  Nellie L. McClung

  World, Citizenship, Ready

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• I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Influence And Power, World, Standards

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• I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Talking, People, Perspective

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• We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

  John McGahern

  Real, Mean, Australia

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• The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

  Julie Payette

  Opportunity, Astronaut

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• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  Gary Bettman

  Hockey, Nhl, Priorities

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Country, Nice, Agency

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• Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

  Bruce Hutchison

  War, World, Colony

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• I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

  Paul Henderson

  Country, Proud, Wonderful

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

  Lara St. John

  Art, Government, Years

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• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  Lara St. John

  Incentives, Benefactors

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Evil, France

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

  Cindy Klassen

  Thinking, Games, Proud

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