Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.
Pierre TrudeauWhen they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre TrudeauYou just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
Pierre Trudeau