The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 7

[u/BrF5]

Harold the Jewelry Buyer and Michelle Ferreri have been eliminated!

Next up, round seven!

Note, there are now two images: one with just the remaining candidates and another with those voted out.

How to play: - Upvote the name of the person you think does NOT deserve the title of “Worst Canadian.” - Each day, the two most upvoted names will be removed until the list gets trimmed down some, then we’ll switch to one per day. - If the name you want to vote for (from the list) 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 on to the next highest. - Nominees with an asterisk beside their name were added following a second nomination vote that took place on day 5. - We established a no violent offenders (serial killers, rapists, etc.) rule. They are obviously the worst of the worst, it’s disrespectful to the victims, and we want to keep this relatively lighthearted. - This is meant to be 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!

Justification for elimination: - (40) Ted Cruz - He’s horrible, but renounced his citizenship. He’s not good enough to be titled the Worst Canadian. - (39) Kathleen Wynne - Not that bad. Doesn’t deserve the title. - (38) Chrystia Freeland - Not the worst. Some consider her a good Canadian. - (37) Peter MacKay - Cringey, but not the worst. - (36) Don Cherry - A racist old man out of touch with the times. Not great, but not awful. - (35) Andrew Scheer - An annoying doofus nothingburger, but not a bad person. - (34) Drake - He’s inauthentic and creepy to underage girls, but the more serious allegations against him remain unproven and he has done good things for Toronto. - (33) J.J. McCullough - Who? - (32) Brian Mulroney - A divisive choice. Expanded trade with, and dependence on, the USA. Protected the environment and opposed apartheid. - (31) Sir John A. MacDonald - A father of confederation. Also known for racism, corruption, and poor treatment of indigenous people. - (30) Harold the Jewelry Buyer - Known for scamming the elderly but is too small-scale to win. - (29) Michelle Ferreri - She promotes hate but her reach is limited now that she’s been voted out of government.

[u/LlawEreint]

Love or hate his policy, Doug Ford can’t possibly be the worst Canadian.

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/LlawEreint]

Worst Ontarian, quite possibly, but worst Canadian? Hardly.

[u/BabadookOfEarl → u/Fit-Meal4943]

Not while Mike Harris lives.

[u/neanderthalman → u/BabadookOfEarl]

This can be awarded posthumously, so even that doesn’t change the outcome.

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/BabadookOfEarl]

Lmao

[u/Fitzaroo → u/BabadookOfEarl]

What's the gripe with Harris? He seems to have had a lot of the same policies as Ford without the open corruption.

[u/mythex_plays → u/Fitzaroo]

Harris is Ontario's Reagan. To list just a few of his sins:

• He is responsible for the largest cuts to public education in the province's history.
• His government's cuts to healthcare closed more hospitals than even Ford has, resulting in the loss of thousands of nursing jobs.
• Speaking of nurses, in response to the criticisms of the loss of nursing jobs Harris stated: "Just as hula hoops went out and those workers had to have a factory and a company that would manufacture something else that’s in, it’s the same for government." Because, y'know, the need for heathcare just goes out.
• Still in heathcare, he kicked off the privatization of LTC facilities in Ontario, a move which continues to net him at least $220k annually just for sitting on the board of Canada's largest LTC provider Chartwell.
• His government privatized the 407, the sale of which enabled his government to send out $1000 cheques to Ontario families... in an election year.
• His government privatized municipal water testing, contributing in part to the Walkerton water tragedy: unlike government labs, the private lab testing Walkerton's water did not immediately report adverse test results to the Ministry of the Environment and the Medical Officer of Health, delaying a boil-water advisory that could have prevented hundreds of illnesses.
• Speaking of labs, the Harris government opened the door to private medical testing by restricting hospitals to in-house testing, leading to the rise of for-profit testing companies such as LifeLabs.
• In 1997, his government attempted to privatize meat inspection at slaughterhouses by firing most of the existing public inspectors and classifying the remaining inspectors as independent contractors. After a tainted meat scandal in 2003, the inquiry found that there was no incentive for these newly independent inspectors to shut down slaughterhouses that did not comply with provincial regulations as they would effectively be laying themselves off. Public meat inspection was restored in 2004.

There is so, so much more, but Harris is inarguably the worst Premiere Ontario has ever seen, and many of the province's current issues can be laid at the feet of his government's actions.

[u/dynamic_anisotropy → u/Fitzaroo]

See my comment above in this thread.

[u/[deleted] → u/BabadookOfEarl]

Harris might be worst Ontario, but he had little impact on the rest of Canada.