Miriam Toews Quotes

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Canadian, adj. and n. An anti-American American.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Canadians are the best, they're the best.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

A real danger threatens the unity of the Canadian people and the preservation of its political existence. This danger is the slow but sure penetration of Americanism into all phases of our national, political, and social life.

Our country should be all Canadian and all British.

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

A nation creates music. The composer only arranges it.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

No encouragement must be given to social and political organizations or methods which perpetuate in this country foreign ideas and customs. An Irish-American, a German-American, or a French-American vote is an intolerable anomaly.

Quebec is the Western world's last colonial nation.

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.