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You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there.
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
My knowledge of Vancouver and Canada was limited to what I knew about Bob and Doug McKenzie. I thought they were funny, talking out of the sides of their mouths and saying 'eh' and wearing toques.
I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
The French have got taste.
Basically the French are all peasants.
JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs.
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.
They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.
The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.
In today's world, only one person in every 200 is Canadian.
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
Of course," Armand was saying to Simon, "you know that it was an American, like yourself, who nearly ruined the wine-making in France?" "We're Canadians." "But that is the same thing, surely?
Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
I'm a first-generation Canadian.
Frenchman: Germans with good food.
I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable.
Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.
Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they're open and that they're inclusive - and I believe that they are.
a bunch of granola eaters who hate George Bush.
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
British. My mother
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.
When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.
If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.
French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
He's a Canadian. I've not much more to say about him." "Isn't he a tall, fit, strapping fellow? A handsome guy, a good-looker with fair hair down to his shoulders?" "Yes," Camille said wairly. "How do you know that as well." "All Canadians are like that. Isn't that so?
I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.
The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better
appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as
are required to prevent the country from breaking up
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
I'm as American as de Tocqueville.
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.
I've always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.
When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.
I'm not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.
Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.
When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.
Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
There's still a lot of Americans who think that those who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 came from Canada, which is absolutely and totally incorrect.
Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men!
Mr. Couture is not an American citizen. He is from Montreal. It is a large city, about the size of Boston, in that very large country just north of here. You may have heard of it. They play hockey. -
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!
You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.
There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
Canadians are so easily wounded.
No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.
I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.
All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.
There's something Vichy about the French.
Canada, or as i call them, America Light.
Who buys French cars? Not me.
In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent.
There was a young man of Quebec
Who was frozen in snow to his neck,
When asked, 'Are you Friz?'
He replied, 'Yes I is,
But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
Their willingness to help others is arguably the single most important trait that defines them as Newfoundlanders. Today, it is an identity they cling to, in part, because it is something that cannot be taken away from them.
Monkey People? They
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
Remember I'm from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say! Lord.
It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.
La di da di, we likes to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.