Justin Trudeau Quotes

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

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

Our country should be all Canadian and all British.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

Canadians are so different and so lovely.

Some say there is no uniquely Canadian identity, that our multicultural fabric is too varied to establish a common thread. I disagree. My grandfather came to a country that celebrates diversity, embraces strife with compassion and respects selfless idealism.

As a 12th-generation Canadian, I'm exactly just that, a Canadian, and I am here to serve all Canadians of all backgrounds, of all walks of life, either new or not so new.

You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

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

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

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

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.