Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Canada Quotes
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.
The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, […]
For some reason a glaze passes over people’s faces when you say “Canada.” Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
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.
Toronto is New York run by the Swiss.
The Canadian is not an American – at least, not entirely, not yet.
Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – its cold, half French, and difficult to stir.
