"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."
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (on finding no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction)
"The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees."
June Callwood
"The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!"
Rick Mercer