The quote is from: Penner, Norman (1988). Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond. Toronto: Methuen. p. 117. ISBN0-458-81200-5.; the irony of the allusion is noted in Thompson, John Herd; Allan Seager (1985). Canada, 1922–1939: Decades of Discord. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 226. ISBN0-7710-8564-8.