Canada Quotes - Page 20

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Government, Years

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• I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

  Paul Henderson

  Country, Proud, Wonderful

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• Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

  Bruce Hutchison

  War, World, Colony

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Country, Nice, Agency

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• Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

  George Monbiot

  Real, Agreement, Environmental

  "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling". www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

  Allen Steck

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mountain

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• I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

  Lilly Singh

  Mom, Journey, Knowing

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Strong, Roles, Looks

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• Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

  David Suzuki

  Sea, Environmental, Rising

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• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  Lara St. John

  Incentives, Benefactors

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• I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Differences

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• If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mutual Respect, Mutual, Ifs

  Pierre Trudeau's televised address, November 24, 1976.

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• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

  Bob Schaffer

  Mother, Children, Ukrainian

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Reality, Thinking

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• Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

  Karen Kain

  Praying, Council, Ifs

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Evil, France

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

  Stephen Reid

  Jobs, Doctors, Light

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• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  Gary Bettman

  Hockey, Nhl, Priorities

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• The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

  Julie Payette

  Opportunity, Astronaut

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• 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 not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Greatness, World

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• Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

  Mark Leiren-Young

  Mean, Together, Mountain

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• For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

  Stockwell Day

  Stories, Journalism, Effects

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Expectations, Community

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