“Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.”

— Vincent Massey

Address to the Rotary Club, St. John's, Newfoundland, August 22, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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Governor General of Canada 1887–1967

Doug Menuez (1957) American photographer

www.apple.com (February 2010) http://www.apple.com/aperture/action/menuez/

“Out security agencies work with each other and with others around the globe to track people who are threats to Canada and to watch threats that may evolve. I think though, this is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. It’s time to treat this- these things are serious threats. Global terrorist attacks, people who have agendas of violence—deep and abiding threats to all the values that our society stands for.”

Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

In response to an alleged plot to attack a VIA Rail passenger train, Toronto Star, April 25, 2013, http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/04/25/stephen_harper_terror_threats_are_no_time_for_apos_sociology_apos_.html
2013

“…the Reformers of this country will remember… with gratitude, that it was the great leaders of the Reform Party who first gave perfect civil and religious rights to the people of Canada”

Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada

Speech 1877

“If there is no friendship with one's neighbours, no one can progress. Look at Canada and the USA -- both countries help each other.”

Sunil Dutt (1929–2005) Hindi film actor

We all are one, whichever religion we belong to

“It is a waste, for silence is pure.
Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are
comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great
paradox.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.”

Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada

Televised address (1976-11-24)

“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaid. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“We must walk together, preserving our culture and identifying but paying respect to difference, to the other person. We can work in a way pleasing to God only while respecting, appreciating and helping each other. Let us walk together!”

Gergely Kovács (1968) archbishop of Alba Iulia

Gergely Kovács, the new Archbishop of Transylvanian Catholics https://transylvanianow.com/this-is-my-diocese-i-am-coming-home-says-new-leader-of-transylvanian-catholics-archbishop-gergely-kovacs/ (February 23, 2020)

“Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.”

B. W. Powe (1955) Canadian writer

Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.”

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