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q[1]="\"That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.\"<br /><i>--Sir Winston Churchill.</i>";
q[2]="\"We shall call this mountain le 'Mont Royal'.\"<br /><i>--Jacques Cartier, French navigator, exploring the site of present-day Montreal in 1535.</i>";
q[3]="\"I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada. I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.\"<br /><i>--Louis St. Laurent (1882-1973), former prime minister.</i>";
q[4]="\"I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland; but for simple beauty, Cape Breton Island out rivals them all.\"<br /><i>--Alexander Graham Bell, inventor.</i>";
q[5]="\"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan.\"<br /><i>--Burton Cummings, singer and songwriter.</i>";
q[6]="\"I think teenagers in the United States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. School is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.\"<br /><i>--Neve Campbell, actress, dancer.</i>";
q[7]="\"The loss of someone you love is horrible enough. But to do it with the public, with the media at your heels, is almost unendurable!\"<br /><i>--William Shatner, actor.</i>";
q[8]="\"I am trying to put Quebec in its place -- and the place of Quebec is in Canada.\"<br /><i>--Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), former prime minister, in Montreal on June 24, 1968, the day before winning his first majority.</i>";
q[9]="\"The Canadian North is the only place where nature can still claim 'to rule'. The only place as yet but little vexed by mankind. All over the globe there is spread his noisy failures; the North alone is silent and at peace. Give man time and he will spoil that too!\"<br /><i>--Stephen Leacock, humorist and historian, 1937.</i>";
q[10]="\"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.\"<br /><i>--Emily Carr, artist.</i>";
q[11]="\"Perhaps what Christmas is all about is to help us rediscover the child in all of us, the fact that we have hearts and are capable of loving.\"<br /><i>--Jean Vanier, spiritual leader, worker with the handicapped, and former governor general of Canada.</i>";
q[12]="\"Canadians represent, as it were, the least militant North American minority group -- the white, Protestant, heterosexual ghetto of the North.\"<br /><i>--Mordecai Richler, writer.</i>";
q[13]="\"The beaver is a good national symbol for Canada. He's so busy chewing he can't see what's going on.\"<br /><i>--Howard Cable, conductor and composer.</i>";
q[14]="\"People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.\"<br /><i>--Bob Edwards (1864-1922), newspaper publisher.</i>";
q[15]="\"Old-timers impatiently called Alberta the 'Next Year Country'. I call it the 'Now Country!'\"<br /><i>--Peter Lougheed, former Albertan premier.</i>";
q[16]="\"We have five hundred years of tenure as the most lethal animal ever to have appeared upon this wasting planet.\"<br /><i>--Farley Mowat, author.</i>";
q[17]="\"It is quite possibly the most intimate relationship between two humans, barring none.\"<br /><i>--William Mitchell, novelist, on the relationship between artist and audience.</i>";
q[18]="\"God's law is clear: standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.\"<br /><i>--Stockwell Day, politician.</i>";
q[19]="\"The Eskimos have fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.\"<br /><i>--Margaret Atwood, writer.</i>";
q[20]="\"The Canadian whole is more than the sum of its provinces.\"<br /><i>--Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), former prime minister, to a Senate/Commons committee studying the Meech Lake accord, August 27, 1987.</i>";
q[21]="\"I came from the west. And we have a wind there called the Chinook. It's a warm wind that pushes back the cold. I'm a Chinook.\"<br /><i>--Joe Clark, former prime minister.</i>";
q[22]="\"I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.\"<br /><i>--Shania Twain, singer.</i>";
q[23]="\"One, two, three, four. Is it snowing where you are, Mr. Theissen? If so telegraph back and let me know.\"<br /><i>--Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor of the radio, on December 23, 1900.</i>";
q[24]="\"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.\"<br /><i>--Sir William Osler (1849-1919), physician and writer.</i>";
q[25]="\"If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.\"<br /><i>--William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), former prime minister.</i>";
q[26]="\"The heart never knows the colour of the skin.\"<br /><i>--Chief Dan George (1899-1981), actor and public speaker.</i>";
q[27]="\"Quebec is part of Canada as much as a cat in the mouth of a crocodile is a part of the crocodile.\"<br /><i>--Yves Beauchemin, writer.</i>";
q[28]="\"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.\"<br /><i>--Elizabeth Arden.</i>";
q[29]="\"In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half French, and difficult to stir.\"<br /><i>--Stuart Keate, businessman.</i>";
q[30]="\"As a Christian, I acknowledge the lordship of Jesus Christ over the whole universe... I believe that the Bible is the infallible word of God and every word in it, cover to cover, is true.\"<br /><i>--Stockwell Day, politician.</i>";
q[31]="\"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.\"<br /><i>--Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), former prime minister.</i>";

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