Gabrielle Roy Quotes

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

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories.

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

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

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

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

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.

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.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

We want an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

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

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.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

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 a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

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

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

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

Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.