#canada

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance. ↗

— John Atkinson

#being #canada #cup #enough #even

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it. ↗

— Lawrence Martin

#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!) ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#death

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#always #been #canada #could #country

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#film #film industry #i #industry #television

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#funny #funny stuff #happens #lot #stuff

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#i #minister #prime #prime minister #prouder

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#another #canada #failed #global #global war

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#basic #body #canada #effective #efforts

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#canada #cooperation #doing #forces #government