{"id":2071,"date":"2025-06-29T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:44:44","slug":"by-george-10-most-favourite-quotes-on-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"By George 10 most favourite quotes on Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Canada was built on dead beavers. \u2014 Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n
  2. The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it\u2019s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. \u2014 June Callwood<\/li>\n
  3. The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. \u2013 Marshall McLuhan<\/li>\n
  4. Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. \u2014 Arnold Edinborough<\/li>\n
  5. Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it\u2019s doing in the Maritimes. \u2014 Tommy Douglas<\/li>\n
  6. Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. \u2014 Richard Staines<\/li>\n
  7. A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. \u2014 Pierre Burton<\/li>\n
  8. Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. \u2014 Sir Winston Churchill<\/li>\n
  9. 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. \u2014 U.S. President Bill Clinton<\/li>\n
  10. When I\u2019m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. \u2014 Jane Fonda<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    (ed. – Here are more quotes on our country and its peoples<\/a><\/em>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Canada was built on dead beavers. \u2014 Margaret Atwood The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it\u2019s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. \u2014 June Callwood The huge advantage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[34,35,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}