By George 10 most favourite quotes on Canada

1. Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood

2. The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood

3. The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. – Marshall McLuhan

4. Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. — Arnold Edinborough

5. Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes. — Tommy Douglas

6. Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. — Richard Staines

7. A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Burton

8. Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. — Sir Winston Churchill

9. 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. — U.S. President Bill Clinton

10. When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. — Jane Fonda

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