Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take…

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

— Pierre Trudeau

I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I…

— Will Ferguson

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

— Marshall McLuhan

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

— Winston Churchill

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

— Winston Churchill

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

— Pierre Berton

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things…

— Bob Rae

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you…

— Emily Carr

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

— Douglas Coupland

I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

— Jon Stewart

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

— Peter Jennings

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

— Rick Mercer

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you…

— Pierre Trudeau

We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

— Andy Barrie

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

— Pierre Trudeau