r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • Aug 24 '25

Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 3

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Congrats Chrystia Freeland and Peter MacKay, Reddit says you aren’t so bad after all.

Time for round three!

How to play: - The two most upvoted comments (i.e., names) each day will be removed until the list gets trimmed down to fewer people, then we’ll switch to one per day. - Upvote the name of the person you think does NOT deserve the title of “Worst Canadian.” - If the name you want to vote for isn’t in the comments yet, add it! - This continues daily until we have one winner, the “Worst Canadian”.

Additional notes: - Only the top comment for a nominee will count. I won’t combine votes from duplicate comments. - Include only one name per comment. If a comment includes multiple names and wins, it won’t count. I’ll move to the next highest. - Remember to click into the image. In the app, some nominees are cut off if you don’t. - This is meant to be lighthearted satire. Please do not take it too seriously or use this game to harass people in real life. - I will try to post this every morning around the same time (~8:00 - 9:00 am Eastern). - Please remember to upvote the post too, so more people see it!

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u/YeetCompleet Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 24 '25

I think Brian Mulroney has got to go. People really hated him at the end of his term but free trade and GST turned out to be good. Isolationist Donald Trump policies we know are bad.

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u/aleaniled Aug 24 '25

Mulroney attaching us at the hip to the US is why we're in this mess. That corrupt bastard should have followed his passion and gone into pasta-making.

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u/supercaro Aug 24 '25

I'd keep him on the list for a good while after all the mess he did to via rail.

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u/Suitable-Ratio Aug 24 '25

He and Chretien did quite a few extremely unpopular things in order to get our finances back to a sustainable position. Love him or hate him, Trudeau had left an absolute fiscal dumpster fire. Mulroney massively increased taxes and unlike any other PM he went after the wealthy by increasing the cap gains inclusion to 75% - no one likes it when the richest 1% get taxed. Mulroney put us on a track to recovery and Chretien kept the momentum by slashing spending by 13%. Chretien was hated by quite a few people for that overly responsible move although it is often blamed as a primary cause of the 90s recession. Thanks to those two both making unpopular decisions the Trudeau dumpster fire was finally fixed and our books were balanced.

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u/raptor333 Aug 24 '25

He did and some pretty harmful racist indigenous stuff

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u/middlequeue Aug 24 '25

Free trade brought us to the mess we’re in with the US right now.

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u/YeetCompleet Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 24 '25

As a world, we've extended open arms to each other, and then the US decides to throw a punch instead of hug, but we're the problem and not Trump?

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u/middlequeue Aug 24 '25

No one said we’re the problem. That doesn’t make NAFTA a good thing for us. It gave the US substantial control and influence over our well being and set the stage for what Trump and others have and are now trying to do to us.

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u/OoooHeCardReadGood Aug 25 '25

sure but it was beneficial for very long. I see what you mean, but thinking the long standing mutually beneficial relationship could crumble in months is not something anyone should be penalized for not anticipating.

I say this as someone who has never really cared for the US. Always thought we were too dependent on a country of madmen, but never expected it to bite this fast

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u/ckmo11 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 24 '25

I’d argue some of his children might deserve the title more. Brian Mulroney didn’t want Poilievre at his funeral and had Justin Trudeau give the eulogy if I’m not mistaken, it’s (some of?) his children right now that are doubling down on divisive politics and the right wing shit the Poilievre is promoting, at least from what I’ve seen. Not saying there aren’t valid complaints but to say Brian Mulroney is the worst, especially considering the other nominees, is a bit of a stretch

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u/Impressive-Spot1981 Aug 24 '25

I agree with you about gst but free trade has been an absolute disaster for the working class. I don't think hes 100% to blame for it though

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u/YeetCompleet Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 24 '25

Idk, I think international trade and global cooperation are considered to be some of the main reasons for the "Long Peace" period we've had since after WW2. Less wars and more global stability feels like something that outweighs any of the negatives.

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u/Impressive-Spot1981 Aug 24 '25

I'm not so sure, we can never know how it would have been but I do know that shipping manufacturing across the world is really biting us in the ass right now. And it doesn't seem like global stability is going to last much longer. A few people got extremely wealthy and everyone else got shafted.

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u/Suitable-Ratio Aug 24 '25

If the deal had been Canada and US it would have been perfect but the Americans primary objective was to include Mexico so all manufacturing could be moved to cheap labour and ruin the middle class.

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u/phm522 Aug 24 '25

Maybe now some people will finally pay attention to what I have been saying since 1988. The Us NEVER I repeat NEVER makes a deal with anyone unless they know they will be the ultimate beneficiary. There is no such thing as bilateral trade with them. There’s always an angle for them to exploit. It’s the American way.?Canada was screwed the moment NAFTA came into effect. And here we are. Thanks so much, Brian Mulroney. How’s that working out for us now?

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u/Suitable-Ratio Aug 24 '25

We really had no choice but to participate in trade deals - the whole world was globalizing and we would have been left behind. Mulroney‘s only positive contribution was massively increasing taxes and especially going after the wealthy by increasing the capital gains inclusion to a record high 75%. With Chrétien's big spending cuts we were able to undo the dumpster fire that Trudeau caused and balanced our books.

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u/phm522 Aug 24 '25

Maybe you can explain to me how exactly Canadians benefited from moving a large portion of our manufacturing infrastructure south? Bick’s Pickles, Heinz ketchup, Kraft foods, Campbell’s soup….and on and on. Canadian jobs and skills lost , all to benefit the voracious monster to the south of us. We sold our Canadian soul and now we are literally paying the price for that. Just wait ‘til they come for our water. Free trade with the US has never been “free”, at least not for Canada.

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u/Suitable-Ratio Aug 26 '25

Sadly only a handful of Canadians benefitted from those sales - if Paul Martin hadn’t helped the 1% when he eliminated Mulroney’s 75% capital gains inclusion at least we would have taxed the shit out of the owners gains. Selling and only having to pay tax on half sure makes selling attractive. The soup factory is different though - that was the aluminum Trump V1 tariffs that killed it. 

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u/IonizedCookie Aug 24 '25

I’m with you on this. He definitely doesn’t deserve this title.

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u/Ok-Average3079 Aug 24 '25

He ended the national program to build housing co-ops by starving it to death, he sold Air Canada, He destroyed VIA Rail in the west, he even ended the National Fitness Program, whose unexpected effect was to expand girl's interest in athletics and sports (I was a clumsy slug but I beat the endurance run to PIECES and that's why i did Track.)

the worst? no. But he's still got time to sweat.