"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
— Jon Stewart

"I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation."
— Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)

"You stabbed me in the back, right to my face! "
— Oscar Leroy

"This is not about revenge, this is about getting even!"
— Oscar Leroy

"Brent: That's right, Wes is nuts. This coming from a guy who once punched a skunk.
Oscar: He had it comin'.
"
— Corner Gas

"North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom."
— Michael Adams

"You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears."
— Will Ferguson (Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada)

"Vive Le Québec Libre."
— Charles de Gaulle

"Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver."
— Gilles Vigneault

"Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted."
— —Can. Lit Earle Birney

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"Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.""
— Can. Lit Earle Birney

"Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind."
— Robertson Davies