“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.” IfsFeelsI CanEnoughPoliticalSocialEmotionalCommitmentRootsIndianCanadaExpatriates Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.” WorldImportantStatesPoliticalValuesGivenInterestAbilityUnitedCommonUnited StatesShareInfluenceEconomicSecurityPolicyExerciseUniqueObjectivesCanadaForeign PolicyContinentsMaintainingSuperpower Author:Stephen Harper
“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.” MaySelfPoliticalImaginationFireSubjectsCommunicationCivilizationPerceptionModelsFlowStartingPatternsIdeologyCanadaAlliancesDominanceElectricalCultivationEbb And FlowWiringLinkages Author:B. W. Powe
“Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.” BigsPoliticalGuyNiceCanadaNice GuyLeversCanada DayCanada FunnyHappy Canada Day Author:Paul Henderson
“Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.” HumansMomentsFeelingsPoliticalJewIndianCanadaPatriotBeing HumanExesSan FranciscoHere I AmCommunesDissidents Author:David Bezmozgis
“I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.” BeautifulPoliticalWonderfulLandCanadaBeautiful Land Author:Yann Martel
“Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.” IfsCountryRememberPoliticalBlackDisappearHolesCanadaElitesThreatenedAccordBlack HoleReferendums Author:Preston Manning