Jinder Mahal Quotes

I look at Canada like a second home.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.

Our country should be all Canadian and all British.

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

Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberland; Irish, the famine; and Jews, the Black Hundreds. Then there are the peasants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Greece, convenient to grow wheat and dig out the ore and swing the hammers and run the restaurants, but otherwise to be kept in their place. Most of us are huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared of the Americans on one side and of the bush on the other

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'

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.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

I was born in Canada, but both my parents are Syrian - they moved to Canada in the '70s, and I was born in a 100-percent-Arab house.

I came to Canada at a young age and I've been here for most of my life, so being able to play for this country is a really great experience and joy.

My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

I belong to a Punjabi Hindu family.