In Canada we have enough to do keeping up to two spoken languages without trying to invent slang, so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
Stephan Leacock, How To Write, 1943
A retired Saskatchewan farmer living in B.C.said, "The mountains are all right, I guess, but they sure do block the veiw."
Peter Berglund, 1958.
Canadian's often appear to suffer from a pronounced inferiority complex resulting from their proximity to the United States. They are probably the only people in the world whose nationalism consists mainly in complaining that there is no real national identity in the country.
Richard A. Preston, Canada Views The United States, 1967.
Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.
Helen Gordon McPherson
Canadians are generaly indistinguishable from the Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make that observation to a Canadian.
Richard Starnes, U.S. Journalist, quoted by Gerald Clark in Canada: The Uneasy Neighbor, 1965.
It has been said that on the Priaries you can watch your dog run away for three days.
Hitchiker Rick, Winnipeg Van, 2002.
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
Anonymous
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
Will Ferguson
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
Peter Jennings