Canada Quote by Craig Kielburger Download Open image “Despite the value to Canada, our country lags in competitiveness in the global social economy.” — Craig Kielburger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canada Country Economics Economy Social Value
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ... — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could… — B. W. Powe Copy Share
We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today. — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That… — David Frum Copy Share Image
There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress,… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree. My grandfather… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
We've set up groups in schools across North America. They apply and receive a curriculum about different issues facing the world - from environment… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary man who… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change the way… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
We would love to see Canadian federal and provincial governments establish a new business entity class like the CIC or L3C for social enterprises.… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes,… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
The children of Qunu stood for hours on the side of a brand new stretch of highway as they waited for the hearse carrying… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
My own service started when I was 12, with the small charity I launched with 12 friends. Twenty years later, millions have joined our… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share
Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore.… — Alice Munro Copy Share
Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
“To be honest, it's a real relief to go to Canada where I can be among my relatives. Just the kind of break I… — Ken Puddicombe Copy Share Image
When I left Canada for Bayern, people said, 'You'll never make it. You'll be back in a year.' I stopped going to school because… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image