Top 181 Canadians Quotes

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.
Wilfrid Laurier
In 2015, our government will make no apologies for using innovative ways to inform Canadians of the terrific enhanced benefits to which they are entitled.
Pierre Poilievre
Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
Wilfrid Laurier
We need a principled leader who will unite our party by respecting all conservatives. A leader who can show more urban and suburban Canadians that their values of liberty, family and equality are at the core of our party.
Erin O’Toole
Canadians no longer have any financial room. Half of Canadians are $200 away from insolvency. They are facing a slowing economy with a diminishing number of jobs, and a rising cost of living to go along with it. That is the consequence of the Trudeau, Morneau tax-and-spend agenda, which is driving our economy down.
Pierre Poilievre
From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.
N. Murray Edwards
The States doesn’t think much about Canada, but we’re attached. We’re like Siamese twins. We can’t do things – you can’t roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters.
Eric McCormack
If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it’s the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada’s indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them – it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what’s at stake, they wouldn’t stand for it.
Paul Martin
I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work

I’d put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that’s what I’m committed to doing. I think it’s been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians… if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.
Martin Short
If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.
Neill Blomkamp
Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here’s how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
Jack Layton
In America it’s all, ‘I’m gonna make something of myself, leave my tiny town and go to L.A!’ Canadians are like, ‘I’m gonna make something of myself, go to L.A., and then come right back again to hang out with my buddies!’
Evan Goldberg
We have to be very realistic as a party as to what we’re promising Canadians going into the 2019 election.
Andrew Scheer
I’ve made the commitment to Canadians that I’m going to stay myself, and I’m going stay open about it, and I’m going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.
Justin Trudeau
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Pierre Trudeau
I have experienced things that I think many Canadians have gone through – the feeling of not belonging, the feeling of being a victim, of being hurt, being marginalized.
Jagmeet Singh
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
Justin Trudeau
Canadians are so easily wounded.
Tucker Carlson
As Canadians, we were born on the ice. We think we’re the best in the world.
Scott Moir
Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food.
Calvin Trillin
There was a time when Canadians – and they’re just north of the border – but there weren’t that many Canadians who had pushed themselves into the level of high-level college players.
Monty Williams
Canadians are often a friendly bunch.
Henry Rollins
There are a lot of people who can’t find housing, who worry about the future, and that insecurity and precarity in their own lives is being exploited by some politicians who are using it to divide us by saying, ‘hey it’s the fault of new Canadians, it’s the fault of refugees, it’s the fault of Muslims.’
Jagmeet Singh
When the UFC visits Canada, the card is usually filled up with a bunch of Canadians.
Ariel Helwani
No climate plan can leave workers and communities behind nor trample the rights of Indigenous communities. Canadians must have opportunity and income security during economic transformation.
Jagmeet Singh
I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That’s the way I see it.
Denis Villeneuve
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.
Marc Garneau
We’ll support the government on issues if it’s essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
Stephen Harper
You’re talking to a guy that graduated from business school by the skin of his teeth, only to crash and burn at his first consulting job. What about that C.V. makes me a good representative of Asian Americans and Canadians?
Simu Liu
I grew up in a small town, like most Canadians.
Carey Price
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.
Alex Berenson
I love Canadians. I think we make an impact around the world just when people meet us, and whenever I meet another Canadian, I see it as well.
Kiesza
I think that Canadians in general very much understand… that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.
Justin Trudeau
I’ve seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.
Brandon Jay McLaren
More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.
Andrew Scheer
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
Jason Priestley
The pain and hardship the Trudeau Liberals are causing Canadians is just temporary.
Andrew Scheer
We must again be the party that inspires Canadians, tha

We must again be the party that inspires Canadians, that makes their hearts beat faster.
Jagmeet Singh
I’m not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that’s a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
Justin Trudeau
I think because we’re such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we’re part of the global economy.
Stephen Harper
In regards to the United States, Canadians expect me to stand up for our values and defend our interests and to have a constructive relationship with our largest trading partner and closest neighbour.
Justin Trudeau
An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Kim Campbell
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell
I think I’d work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don’t feel that our economy is working for us.
Justin Trudeau
I believe that the federal government should respect the freedoms that Canadians enjoy to have different beliefs and that by imposing personal values of Justin Trudeau on a wide variety of groups is not an appropriate way to go.
Andrew Scheer
We want to help Canadians be able to get a home that they can afford.
Jagmeet Singh
I like Canadians. Who doesn’t like Canadians? It’s amazing! They’re the friendliest people on earth.
Sarah Rafferty
If you believe in free markets, I don’t want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that’s the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.
Maxime Bernier
I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It’s a great dynamic.
Mike Myers
I trust Canadians’ capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.
Justin Trudeau
We have to recognize is that the best way to improve the quality of life for First Nations and Indigenous Canadians is through economic development and activity.
Andrew Scheer
Canadians know me so well – I am part of Canada’s collective memory – and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.
Margaret Trudeau
It’s no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians – to pit workers against environmentalists.
Jagmeet Singh
In Canada, women’s rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
Paul Martin