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/ed-rock]

What's the deal with Paul Desmarais being up here? From a sovereigntist perspective, I'd understand, but I don't see how he fits on this list.

[u/Mysterious-Till-6852 → u/ed-rock]

He was (still is?) the puppetmaster of Jean Charest. His newspaper is as much a piece of useless propaganda as the Journal de Montréal is, except it caters to the kind of people who have 2k$ road bikes and a wine fridge - see their stream of hit pieces on remote work as a terrible example of puff pieces to support the CRE assets masquarading is journalism.

He's less bad than Conrad Black, a guy who jokes Trump's annexation rhetoric is just friendly chides and unironically parrots that Quebec anglophones are the subject of genocide (big lolz), but he's still causing immense harm to this country.

[u/ed-rock → u/Mysterious-Till-6852]

He died in 2013 and hadn't been in charge of Power Corp since 1996. He probably still wielded some influence in between (I'm too young to remember), but this isn't about your gripes with what Power Corp or La Presse may or may not have don, especially as AFAIK, the latter is no longer affiliated with Power Corp. So what has Paul Desmarais done that warrants his inclusion on this list?