Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.