#canadians

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle. ↗

— Paul Martin

#benefits #canadians #circle #enjoy #now

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#canadians #common #crude #distinguishing #europeans

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#montreal #patience #winter #dreams

Nate had been born and raised in British Columbia, and Canadians hate, above all things, to offend. It was part of the national consciousness. "Be polite" was an unwritten, unspoken rule, but ingrained into the psyche of an entire country. (Of course, as with any rule, there were exceptions: parts of Quebec, where people maintained the "dismissive to the point of confrontation, with subsequent surrender" mind-set of the French; and hockey, in which any Canadian may, with impunity, slam, pummel, elbow, smack, punch, body-check, and beat the shit out of, with sticks, any other human being, punctuated by profanities, name-calling, questioning parentage, and accusations of bestiality, usually-coincidentally- in French.) ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #whales #humor

Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now. “Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him. “Oh? Why?” “Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.” Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle. The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison. I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter. ↗

— Sierra Dean

#dominick #humor #secret #love

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#care #changes #children #demands #family

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#false #hope #hopes #raised #real

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians

Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadians #god #i #i believe #i believe in

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian. ↗

— Dave Foley

#canadians #discussing #means #much #spend