Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier

Any man who says that he is a Canadian, but tries to impose his customs and habits on us, is not a Canadian.

Prime Minister Robert Borden

The ownership and operation of a railway is a national function because the railway is no more than a modern highway of commerce operated by a common carrier.

Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

House of Commons Debates (1885)

"If you look around the world you will see that the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics. It is not to be desired that they should come; that we should have a mongrel race, that the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed by a cross or crosses of that kind."

Prime Minister Mackenzie King

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King

Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws.

Prime Minister Robert Borden

Montreal, October 15th, 1904

Adequate protection is that which would at all times secure the Canadian market to Canadians in respect to all Canadian enterprises.