Actual quotes from actual Canadian politicians
“Canada is the greatest nation in this country.”
—former Toronto mayor Allan Lamport
“If this thing starts to snowball, it will catch fire right across the country.”
—former Alberta MP Robert Thompson
“My conduct had nothing to do with me.”
—Ontario MP Al McLean (defending himself against a sexual harassmentcharge)
“What the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombasa? I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me.”
—former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman (before departing on an official visit to Kenya)
“Your Majesty, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and Madame Houde thanks you from her bottom too.”
—Montreal mayor Camillien Houde in to King George VI (1936)
“I am not denying anything I didn’t say.”
—Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
“If I tell a lie, it’s because I think I’m telling the truth.”
—British Columbia legislator Phil Gaglardi
“My strategy has always been to stay on course unless a change, of course, is announced. And if it is, of course, we will announce it.”
—Prime Minister John Turner
“Are you some kind of right-wing commie bastard? Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?”
—Toronto mayor Rob Ford (after being asked to be quiet at a hockey game; he was drunk)
“I’m not a genius, obviously, but he makes me look like one.”
—former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, on current Toronto mayor Rob Ford
The world’s largest Ceilidh fiddle resides on the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia.