Canadian Quotable

“What our writers and artists sneer at as ‘typically Canadian’ is reality for most of the world. It’s not a unique flaw in our character. It doesn’t resign us to a second-rate destiny. In our now more global world, in fact, smallness is becoming everyone’s reality. And knowing how to live with smallness is becoming an ever more important skill. ”

- Ken Dryden, hockey personality, lawyer, and author, address, Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in Canadian Studies, November 2000, University of Ottawa (source: The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations)