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~ Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys. ~
~ Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians. ~
~ Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. ~
~ For many years Canada has held an obscure place among the countries of the globe. Our borders have been pictured as the abode of perpetual snows, and our people as indifferent, easy-going, indolent. But change is taking place. ~
~ The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet. ~
~ In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect. ~
~ The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear. ~
~ Canada was built on dead beavers. ~
~ 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. ~
~ God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. ~
~ Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ~
~ I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. ~
~ Scotland is the Canada of England! ~
~ Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective. ~
~ Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir. ~
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