Will Ferguson Quotes

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

Will Ferguson

• English
• Americans
• Delicate
• Bizarre
• Royalty
• Stopping
• Canadian
• Swallowed

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • English
  • Americans
  • Delicate