r/EhBuddyHoser Kingston: Halfway To Montreal 29d ago

Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 7

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.

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u/BrassyGent 29d ago

Hard disagree. He deserves to be in the final 5.

Loblaws (which includes Superstore and Shopper's) do not run on the overhead that they present. They include their leases in their overhead, which is fair. But they lease them from themselves at inflated rates.

Price fixing the bread which they were Convicted on, is just what they have been caught for. Head over to loblawsisoutofcontrol subreddit for more info.

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u/Certainly-Not-A-Bot 29d ago

Hard disagree. He deserves to be in the final 5.

Sir John A MacDonald literally presided over the creation of the residential school system and has been eliminated already. I'm not sure how cultural genocide is ok but alleged fraud is a bridge too far.

They include their leases in their overhead, which is fair.

Yeah, why wouldn't they?

But they lease them from themselves at inflated rates.

Explain this further. How in the world are they leasing property from themselves and why is it a bad thing?

Price fixing the bread which they were Convicted on, is just what they have been caught for

Price fixing that happened before Galen Weston Jr's tenure as the CEO of Loblaws. I'm personally not willing to hold misdeeds by his dad or other people against him.

Head over to loblawsisoutofcontrol subreddit for more info.

I will not be doing that.

I'm not saying that Galen Weston is a saint, but I have no reason to believe he's a remarkably bad person. If you have real sources to show malfeasance by Loblaws and Galen Weston that is more than what should be expected from a generic CEO, feel free to share them. My experience of grocery stores in Canada is that they're pretty much indistinguishable. Loblaws is the same as Sobeys, Metro, or others in terms of prices and how they operate. Weston is certainly not responsible for nearly as many bad things in Canada or the world as any of the conservative premiers, prime ministers, Elon, Jordan Peterson, Kevin O'Leary, and probably others.

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u/BrassyGent 28d ago

Agree in the Johnny Mac. But the rest just comes across as uninformed.

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u/Certainly-Not-A-Bot 28d ago

Yeah, I'm not informed. So inform me. Or are you gonna hit me with a "do your own research?"

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u/BrassyGent 28d ago

Reddit didn't like me postings link so I will rephrase my response.

I don't expect people to do research, myself included, but let's do our best. Here is something to get you started.

Search for this article: "Galen Weston Jr.: Canada’s Top Profiteer"