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The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

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Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
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As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
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The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
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I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
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The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
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In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
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I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
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Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.
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The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.
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At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
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I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.
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For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
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The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies
Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.
Paul Cellucci
Canada is hockey.
Mike Weir
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
Maureen Forrester
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
Wilfrid Laurier
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
Ted Kotcheff
I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
Kim Campbell
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
Rowan Atkinson
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.
Paul Martin
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
Billy Sherwood
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.
Gabrielle Roy
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
Charles E. Wilson
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Sue Johanson
I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.
Marcel Dionne
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
Conan O'Brien
I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
Dave Winfield
The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
Mark McKinney
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
Paul Cellucci
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
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Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.
Pierre Pettigrew
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
Hugh Miller
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
George Best
The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.
Leopold Trepper
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.
James Cameron
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
John Strachan
There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
Wayne Rogers
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
Stephen Harper
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Norman Angell
I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
Owen Hart
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
John Charles Polanyi
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
Emily Carr