Canadian Government Quotes

• Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Government, Promise

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Identity, World

  1967 'Canada: A Borderline Case', CBC radio broadcast, 29 May.

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• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Army, Government

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• I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

  Jason Priestley

  Government, Canada, Bash

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• This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage the use of personal defence weapons. Once public possession of one type of weapon is condoned for personal defence, the situation of weapon possession for protection starts to spiral upwards towards more powerful and dangerous weapons.

  Anne McLellan

  Powerful, Believe, Government

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• The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Water, Navy

  "New Canada PM Challenges U.S. on Arctic Sovereignty", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Sean Hannity

  Couple, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

  Hawa Abdi

  Government, Tangible, Helping

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• Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Sex, War, Knowing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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