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Quotes About Canada

Canada supplied, in 2019, about 50 percent of total U.S. oil imports, a volume three times greater than all the oil the United States imported from OPEC countries
~ Daniel Yergin
But like the U.S. Government, the Canadian powers-that-be never seemed to realize that criminals don't pay any attention to rules and regulations and laws. The only group of people who are punished by restrictive gun laws are the law-abiding citizens.
~ William W. Johnstone
I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
~ Yann Martel
I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering on the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matches, but I love Canada. It's a country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
~ Yann Martel
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.
~ Christopher Moore
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
~ Cliff Stearns
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!
~ Homer Simpson
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
~ Stompin' Tom Connors
When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
~ Aaron Douglas
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
~ Ryan Reynolds
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.
~ Ryan Holmes
When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.
~ Jim Pattison
In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
~ Grimes
I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.
~ Jessica Lowndes
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing.
~ Ryan Holmes
In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don't beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it's true, it's true.
~ Kurt Angle
I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.
~ Patrick Chan
I'd love to shoot something in Toronto; I'd love to bring something to Canada. I'm dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I'm from.
~ Cobie Smulders
There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.
~ Alan Thicke
Shakti' moves on various levels - love in Canada, feudalism in India and, above all, a mother's fierce fight against her father-in-law to wrest back custody of her child.
~ Boney Kapoor
Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.
~ Justin Trudeau
The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
~ Xavier Dolan
We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if we're looking at how do we phase out fossil fuels in the period in which we're phasing them out, let's only use Canadian.
~ Elizabeth May