CITATION

Who said what this week

“All the signs say ‘Star Wars.’ The music that was playing in the parking lot was ‘Star Wars’ … if a duck’s a duck, it’s a duck, right? It should have been common sense.”

Brad Whalen, owner of the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina in Lethbridge, Alta., after police took down and bloodied the nose of an employee dressed as a Stormtrooper on ‘May the 4th Be With You’ day

“We cannot be confined … everybody is going to go crazy if we keep that up for months.”

Dr. Horacio Arruda, Quebec’s director of public health, on the province’s easing of isolation restrictions on seniors over 70 who are healthy

“One of the silver linings … we feel that we have been booted into the 21st century of technology by this crisis.”

Ontario Court Justice Leslie

Pringle on the use of streaming video to keep courts up and running

“Based on established practice, these backgrounds should be as neutral as possible.”

Commons Speaker Anthony Rota after Parliament’s first virtual sitting, with backgrounds such as a stuffed deer head and green screen making appearances

“When it comes to reopening our economy, I’d rather be safe than sorry.”

Premier Doug Ford in announcing tentative first steps by opening garden and hardware stores Friday and Saturday and retailers offering curbside pickup on Monday

“Sidewalk Toronto will go down in history as one of the more disturbing planned experiments in surveillance capitalism.”

Jim Balsillie, former co-chief executive of BlackBerry and a critic of the plan after it was announced Google was pulling out