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On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
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Preface, p. ix

 

John Allen Fraser

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The most notable of the great plateaus of the Prairies is that known to Mexicans as El Llano Estacado, which is bounded on the north by the Canadian river — extends east about to the United States boundary, including the heads of the False Washita and other branches of Red River — and spreads southward to the sources of Trinity, Brazos and Colorado rivers, and westward to Rio Pecos. It is quite an elevated and generally a level plain, without important hills or ridges, unless we distinguish as such the craggy breaks of the streams which border and pierce it. It embraces an area of about 30,000 square miles, most of which is without water during three-fourths of the year; while a large proportion of its few perennial streams are too brackish to drink of.

 

Josiah Gregg

 

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

 

1st Duke of Wellington

 

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away… This is o­ne more reason why Westerners, but Albertans in particular, need to think hard about their future in this country. After sober reflection, Albertans should decide that it is time to seek a new relationship with Canada. …Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. It is to take the bricks and begin building another home – a stronger and much more autonomous Alberta. It is time to look at Quebec and to learn. What Albertans should take from this example is to become “maitres chez nous.

 

Stephen Harper

 

The river of my title is a river of DNA, and it flows through time, not space. It is a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.

 

Richard Dawkins