At least our politicians are mostly normal. Oh, wait…
“If this thing starts to snowball, it will catch fire right across the country.”
—Social Credit Party leader Robert Thompson
“Canada is the greatest nation in this country.”
—Toronto mayor Allan Lamport
“Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.”
—John A. Macdonald
“I’m not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.”
—Liberal leader John Turner
“Your majesty, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and Madame Houde here thanks you from her bottom, too.”
—Montreal mayor Camillien Houde, to King George VI
“Dalton McGuinty. He’s an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet.”
—Ontario PC news release
“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes.”
—Tommy Douglas
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.”
—Jean Chrétien
“The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.”
—Kim Campbell
“My conduct had nothing to do with me.”
—Ontario MPP Al McLean, defending his conduct during a sexual harassment case
“Paul Martin commits to positions like Britney Spears commits to marriage.”
—Stephen Harper
“You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.”
—Brian Mulroney
Per capita, more Guinness records are broken in Canada than in any other country.