Top 181 Canadians Quotes

Canadians can be funny.
Gord Downie
The best counter to the kind of radicalization and marginalization that we’ve seen in other parts of the world is to create an inclusive society where everyone, including especially Muslim Canadians, have every opportunity to succeed, just like anybody else.
Justin Trudeau
We are at our best when we are at our proudest. Canadians need to harness that confidence in every arena, not just the ice rink. The Maple Leaf stands for quality, thoughtfulness, and innovation, so let’s brand it proudly on the things that we’ve invented, created, and figured out.
Tobias Lutke
I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I’m very, very confident that’s exactly what Canadians are going to do.
Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau had a message of asking Canadians to have trust in our immigration system. The problem is Canadians don’t have trust in the Liberals to manage it.
Andrew Scheer
The freedoms of religion, thought and speech are all fundamental rights Canadians not only enjoy, we have fought for them at home and abroad. We know that a vibrant democracy means that on some issues, Canadians will understandably have different views.
Erin O’Toole
Certainly in a world where terrorism is a daily reality in the news, it’s easy for people to be afraid. But the fact is that we laid out very clearly – and Canadians get – that it’s actually not a choice between either immigration or security: that of course they go together.
Justin Trudeau
We have to be able to show Canadians that our strength on the economy doesn’t mean we ignore all other issues.
Erin O’Toole
Canadians are so different and so lovely.
Amybeth McNulty
Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
Karen Kain
Canada has treated abortion as just another medical procedure since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the old criminal law. Most Canadians seem to think that’s fine.
Neil Macdonald
I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it’s even worse for our country.
Justin Trudeau
Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion.
Denise Dresser
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
Jean Chretien
Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justi

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.
Jagmeet Singh
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
Jagmeet Singh
You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.
Maxime Bernier
When I was a kid, I didn’t know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.
Carrie-Anne Moss
We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don’t realize that when you come out of prison, you’re a complete pariah. You can’t get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It’s just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.
Kevin O’Leary
Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the arts than Americans.
Chris de Burgh
One of the reasons why Canadians are generally positively inclined towards immigration is we’ve seen over decades, over generations, that it works.
Justin Trudeau
I do not hear any plan for sheltering Canadians from the next global financial crisis, which is coming for all of us as surely as arthritis is stalking the boomers.
Neil Macdonald
I’m in politics to defend the rights of Canadians – to secure a brighter future.
Erin O’Toole
I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.
Maxime Bernier
For as long as we’re using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.
Elizabeth May
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
Kim Campbell
Canadians are the best, they’re the best.
Brody Jenner
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Paul Martin
If Canadians want to know what the Conservatives’ ideas are or plans are on the environment, on Indigenous reconciliation, on any issue that Canadians are looking for some leadership, we have to have a plan and an approach. We can’t just run on the economy.
Erin O’Toole
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.
Ronda Rousey
Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don’t expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.
Vaclav Smil
We need to reach out to more Canadians to show them that they could see themselves reflected in our party.
Erin O’Toole
Mexico is a free trade partner of Canada. Despite that, for many Canadians, Mexico is even more foreign, unknown, and uninteresting than many countries in Africa.
Denise Dresser
That’s something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
Patrick Kane
There’s a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.
Luke Macfarlane
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
Robert MacNeil
Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.
Stockwell Day
I stand in support of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations and all Canadians who find themselves with no voice in our present version of democracy, who are trying to come up with the entry fee that gets them a seat at the table where their pollution future is being discussed.
Gord Downie
It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.
Jamal Khashoggi
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
Jack Layton
I’m not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I’m worried about what’s actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids’ jobs.
Justin Trudeau
People should not have to worry about violence in their own neighbourhoods, but sadly, that is a reality that more and more Canadians face.
Andrew Scheer
Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
Jason Reitman
It was 1976, and I was acting off-Broadway with a pair of Canadians: Victor Garber and Gale Garnett. The play was called ‘Cracks,’ and Martin Sherman, the man who wrote it, went on a few years later to have a giant hit with ‘Bent.’ But not this time around. Opening night was a disaster.
Christopher Lloyd
My own service started when I was 12, with the small charity I launched with 12 friends. Twenty years later, millions have joined our ranks – educators, business leaders and prominent Canadians.
Craig Kielburger
Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly

Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it’s paid for by everyone.
Justin Trudeau
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
Fidel Castro
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Chris Hadfield
We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.
Erin O’Toole
Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.
Estella Warren
Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
Dave Foley
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family – Russian exiles and the Canadians they married – is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.
Michael Ignatieff
One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don’t have to be one thing. That’s a European idea. There’s multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner.
John Ralston Saul
Everything you’ve heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn’t be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
Rachel Nichols
I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.
Justin Trudeau
The typical journalist’s typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Stockwell Day