We all know that Canada is a pretty great place to live (have you seen our healthcare system?), but sometimes it’s easy to forget just how lucky we are. That’s why today we’re sharing 45 of our favorite Canadian quotes with you just in time for Canada Day!
Whether they’re about the beauty of our country or the strength of our people, these quotes will remind you why Canada is so special. As someone who has been a Canadian his entire life, I can tell you that Canada really is an amazing country, and these quotes reflect that! Enjoy them, eh?!
Let the Canadian quotes begin!
1) “I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.” – Kendrick Lamar
2) “I believe the world needs more Canada.” – Bono
3) “Canada’s the best country in the world.” – Justin Bieber
4) “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” – Jack Layton
5) “Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.” – William Gibson
6) “My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.” –Tommy Douglas
7) “Every time I hear a mean joke about being Canadian, I go to the hospital and get my feelings checked for free.” – Unknown
8) “God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.” – Norman Angell
9) “I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.” – Margaret Atwood
Canada Day Quotes by Justin Trudeau
10) “Canada has always been there to help people who need it.” – Justin Trudeau
11) “The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.” – Justin Trudeau
12) “I think Canada has a great story, and I’m glad to tell it.” – Justin Trudeau
13) “Canada is hockey.” – Mike Weir
14) “Canadians come from every corner of the world, speak two official languages and hundreds more, practice many faiths, and represent many cultures. Multiculturalism is at the heart of Canada’s heritage and identity – and as Canadians, we recognize that our differences make us strong.” – Justin Trudeau
15) “We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.” – Justin Trudeau
Canada Day Quotes by John G. Diefenbaker
16) “I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” – John G. Diefenbaker
17) “There can be no dedication to Canada’s future without a knowledge of its past.” – John G. Diefenbaker
18) “In Canada, we’re happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we’re happy to set their broken bones for free.” – Douglas Coupland
19) “Canada is the homeland of equality, justice, and tolerance.” – Kim Campbell
20) “It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.” – Emily Carr
21) “Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!” – John A MacDonald
22) “Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.” – Robin Williams
23) “My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian” – Jim Carrey
24) “Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state-directed – something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure.” – Paul Kopas
25) “I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.” – Ryan Reynolds
26) “I’m on the Eh Team.” – Unknown
27) “One day, Canada will take over the world. Then you’ll all be sorry.” – Unknown
28) “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.” – Marshall McLuhan
Canada Day Quotes by Pierre Trudeau
29) “Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.” – Pierre Trudeau
30) “Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.” – Pierre Trudeau
31) “Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
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32) “Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.” – Mark Leiren-Young
33) “It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.” – Anne McDonald
34) “We’re strong believers in peacekeeping. Except on the ice.” – Unknown
Canada Day Quotes by Barack Obama
35) “Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world.” –Barack Obama
36) “I take tips from Canada on a lot of things.” – Barack Obama
37) “The fact that over 50 percent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.” – Anthony Bourdain
38) “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.” – Winston Churchill
39) “Canada has two emblems – the beaver and the maple.” – John W. Dawson
40) “Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who’ve never been there, and it’s like, ‘You’ve never been to my whole world?'” – Carly Rae Jepsen
41) “When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.” – Jane Fonda
42) “Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.” – Terry Fox
43) “Hockey is our winter ballet and, in many ways, our only national drama.” – Morley Callaghan
44) “I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half-hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It’s absolutely incredible.” – Sebastian Bach
45) “You can’t buy happiness, but you can live in Canada. And that’s pretty much the same thing.” – Unknown
I hope you enjoyed these Canadian quotes!
Please share these Canadian quotes for a Happy Canada Day with your friends and family.
