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* [[Good Bad Translation]]: According to legend, when Jacques Cartier asked the Huron-Iroquois people where he was, they replied that they were taking him to "kanata", meaning "the village". He interpreted it as "we are in the nation of Kanata". So he wrote "Canada" on all the maps.
** Lampshading this, one of the suburbs of the nation's capital is named "Kanata."
* [[Memetic Mutation]]
** "[http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1970-pierre-trudeau-says-just-watch-me-during-october-crisis Just watch me]." ~ Pierre Trudeau
** "[http://www.parli.ca/state-place-bedrooms-nation/ The state has no
** "[[wikipedia:You had an option, sir|You had an option, sir.]]" ~ Brian Mulroney▼
** "[http://www.parli.ca/fuddle-duddle/ Fuddle Duddle]" ~ [[Bowdlerise|officially attributed to]] Pierre Trudeau
** [http://www.parli.ca/walk-in-the-snow/ a "walk in the snow"] ~ again, Pierre Trudeau
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** "Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription." ~ [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|attributed to]] William Lyon Mackenzie King, who [http://www.parli.ca/conscription-if-necessary-not-necessarily-conscription/ actually said] "not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary."
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ddPhG6EAOo They're going home!]" ~ Bob Cole
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU 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 Chretien
** "[http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/clips/2048/ He shoots, he scores!]" ~ Foster Hewitt
* [[National Stereotypes]]: Beer, bears, beavers, and lumberjacks are most of the biggest Canadian stereotypes. Moose, modesty, maple syrup, and hockey cover the rest.
** Although Canada currently has a monopoly on the [[wikipedia:Chris Hadfield|singing
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