Canadian author Pierre Burton: "A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: "Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts."

American economist John Maynard Keynes: "Canada is a place of infinite promise."

Time Magazine: "Canada is one of the planet's most comfortable, and caring, societies."

Canadian hockey player Paul Henderson: "Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys."

French explorer Jacques Cartier: "I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain."

American gangster Al Capone: "I don't even know what street Canada is on."

American President Bill Clinton: "In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect."

American journalist Andrew H. Malcolm: "It's going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it."

Canadian philosopher and scholar Marshall MacLuhan: "The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness."

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured and generous-hearted people."

Canadian writer Alberto Manguel: "Until I came to Canada I never knew 'snow' was a four letter word."

American actor Marilyn Monroe: "When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere."

Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland: "There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their names in a snow bank."

American comedian Robin Williams: "Canadian money is  called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?"

American President Barack Obama: "I love this country."


(Samantha Jones is a Canadian journalist publishing her erotic memoir at www.lulu.com)