These are from a Readers Digest article on how Canadians find politics and goings-on in Canada funny..... when we're not wishing we could push them down a long flight of stairs.
BC newspaper publisher Stuart Keate: "Canada must be considered the Vichyssoise of nations - cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."
Author Mordecai Richler: "world-famous! - all over Canada."
Former Reform Leader Preston Manning: "An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse."
Author/anthropologist J. R. Colombo: "Canada could have enjoyed English government, French culture and American know-how. Instead, it would up with English know-how, French government, and American culture."
First Prime Minister John A McDonald: "Do nothing by halves, which can be done by quarters."
Former PM Joe Clark (when working under PM Brian Mulroney), addressing an aboriginal audience: "Little Chin speaks for Big Chin."
BC newspaper publisher Stuart Keate: "Canada must be considered the Vichyssoise of nations - cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."
Author Mordecai Richler: "world-famous! - all over Canada."
Former Reform Leader Preston Manning: "An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse."
Author/anthropologist J. R. Colombo: "Canada could have enjoyed English government, French culture and American know-how. Instead, it would up with English know-how, French government, and American culture."
First Prime Minister John A McDonald: "Do nothing by halves, which can be done by quarters."
Former PM Joe Clark (when working under PM Brian Mulroney), addressing an aboriginal audience: "Little Chin speaks for Big Chin."