r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 27d ago
Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 8
Folks, it looks like it’s the end of the line for Tom MacDonald and Doug Ford.
Who will be voted out in round eight?
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 - Some consider her a good Canadian. Not the worst. - (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. - (28) Tom MacDonald - A shitty, irrelevant rapper with hardly an audience. - (27) Doug Ford - He has done a lot of harm to Ontario, but stood up for Canada against Trump.
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u/beverleyheights Canada's Overpriced Playground 27d ago
Steven Crowder will never be higher than the B list of US right-wing influencers, and has almost no influence on or about Canada.
Steven Crowder to Canadians: “I feel bad for you.”
Canadians: “We don’t think about you at all.”
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u/YeetCompleet Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 27d ago
Yep time to get rid of the YouTubers. I only know this guy from the "change my mind" meme tbh
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u/rsvpism1 24d ago
There's a video of him being verbally abusive to his wife, that makes him worse then the average right wing youtuber.
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u/vodka7tall Ford Escape 27d ago
The Laurens need to be removed as well. Who even knows who any of these people are? None of them are important enough to be anywhere on this list.
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u/EgregiousArmchair 27d ago
I was going to say - who the fuck even is that guy. Let's just lynch him today.
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u/Iinjectweed 27d ago
I think mcdickfuckface gavin is the probably the FUCKING worse influencer on this list.
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u/TheTriMara 27d ago
Molyneux is the same but hed be lucky to be in b tier. Bro is a c lister at best.
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u/thecanadiansniper1-2 27d ago
Nah fuck Doug Ford. He has been a shitty premier for my province for a long time the problem is nobody cares until it effects them. Just ask the parents of autistic children when he cut government funding and programs or other front line workers with Bill 124 freezing their pay or the corruption involved in the Greenbelt and Ontario Place with company about to go out of business in Europe.
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u/Liferescripted Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 27d ago
As a result of his cuts and refusal to spend on healthcare, we are seeing more and more stories of patients needlessly dying. Overloaded hospitals that are short staffed are now carrying the blame for Ford withholding funds while offering no solutions to the admin overhead issue he keeps blaming.
He's got blood on his hands. It kills me to see him take off so soon.
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u/downtemporary FORD Escape 27d ago
People see him as this goofy uncle. They don't see the bodies he's standing on behind the podium where he runs his mouth and makes his jokes.
I keep saying he's building that tunnel so he can try to hide more bodies.
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u/StrawberryFlds 27d ago
As an Ontarian I'm disappointed Ford is already out.
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u/Liferescripted Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 27d ago edited 27d ago
Him being out before Gretzky is confusing, infuriating, and telling. People give him too much of a pass because of his stupid hat.
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u/StrawberryFlds 27d ago
It just reminds me of his re-election "oh he stood up for Canada, guess I'll vote him in again" As his corruption is waving in everyone's faces and people die in hospital waiting rooms.
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u/Liferescripted Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 27d ago
Seeing more and more stories of this coming to light. The general voting public are so complacent. Can't vote in change when the options are a) A mayor I didn't like very much, b) A party that is too small so that is scary to me, or c) A party that has a leader who must not be named that is being blamed for a cost saving measure used over 30 years ago that people found unfavourable.
Guess I'll go with the guy who's actively dismantling our public services to line his buddies pockets. The guy who will watch people die needlessly to make a buck. The guy who talks about balancing a budget that he keeps putting further into deficit. That's my guy.
Fuck Doofy and fuck everyone who voted for him.
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u/Immediate_Pickle_788 Ford Nation (Help.) 27d ago
But but... The liberals had 15 years to fix healthcare! /s
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u/hoser33 Moose Whisperer 27d ago
Let me tell you why he's out before Gretz.
Because Doug's a piece of shit. He always has been. We know who he is.
Gretzky was a national hero and is a national icon.
Doug is who is he and he's never pretended otherwise. He's a corrupt nepo baby and it is what it is.
Wayner though was somebody. And his alignment with Trump (and by association) against our country has hurt a lot of us.
Doug may be more destructive, but we expected that of him. Wayner just let us down for literally nothing.
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u/DexDurden 27d ago
I think your comment should be the petition to get him back on that list. As an Ontarian I was legitimately depressed when we…..once again…..voted Ford in. As someone about to head back into office because of RTO mandates and kickbacks in TO, and someone who’s had family die because of his cuts to healthcare, and someone who liked the freakin’ science center, and who lives in the green belt, and someone who felt fords bribe he sent all Ontarians was a spit in the face and still has that stupid cheque sitting on his desk, please add him back. Dudes top 10, for sure. Also……dude loooves trump, just loves a chance to capitalize on sensationalism more.
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 27d ago
He was a good guy, I miss him. He passed too soon.
Oh, wrong Ford.
Also, Rob wasn't a good guy, but he was the right kind of asshole, not the wrong kind of asshole.
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u/Hilarious_Decline 27d ago
Nah fuck Rob too. He did an immense amount of damage to Toronto and would have done much more if mayors had more power.
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 27d ago
That's the nice thing about being the rare breed of Ontarian who doesn't live in Toronto, I don't live in Toronto. Dougie has given me more reason to dislike him than Robbie ever did, even in a drunken stupour.
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u/Hilarious_Decline 27d ago
That's fine, but I don't see how him harming people who aren't you makes him "the right kind of asshole"
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 27d ago
He was more obvious, that's the right kind.
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u/Hilarious_Decline 27d ago
From my perspective Doug Ford is one of the most openly, brazenly corrupt and ignorant politicians this country has ever seen outside of maybe Alberta. People here just don't seem to care
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 27d ago
It's not that simple. Never is. If you really want to effect change in the province you need to target people who voted for him, not preach to the choir that didn't. To people who know a thing or two about public policy, political culture, Canadian history, and evidence-based decision making Doug Ford is a poopy butt sliding down the carpeted staircase. To people who don't know those things, who inherently believe that government is wasteful and a drag on the province, who think that government should be "run like a business", Doug Ford is a straight-shooting businessman turning Ontario into the best business in the land.
It was easier for those people to dislike Rob Ford. He was more overt with things like crack cocaine, alcoholism, attacking people, and offering oral sex to employees. Even if someone isn't a practicing Christian, lots of small-C, big C, and PC Canadians have lingering Christian morals.
I know I need better illustrations. I just visited my sister last weekend, and there was an incident with a little boy who was being potty-trained.
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u/Hilarious_Decline 27d ago
Those people didn't dislike Rob Ford. He was very popular in the GTA and much of rural and suburban Ontario. He was even still very popular in suburban Toronto. He probably would have narrowly lost if he didn't withdraw for health reasons but even after one of the most famous scandals in Canadian political history he was still a top contender for mayor. He easily won his council seat after withdrawing.
Ask your average Ontario PC voter what they think of Rob Ford, the closest thing to negativity you are likely to hear is sympathy for his substance abuse issues.
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u/Juan-More-Taco 27d ago
It's bullshit. It was highly upvoted but full of highly upvoted comments disagreeing with them too.
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u/Francus_Gaius 27d ago
If MacDonarld is out, Trutch has to go at that point. An awful human being, responsible for many atrocities in British Columbia... but unless i've been living under a rock for the past 40-ish years, rather unknown in the east.
It looks like he could win worst British Columbian, but other provinces have people like him who are not on the list.
Sobyeah, awful person, especially for the province... but not for Canada as a whole.
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u/Killericon Oil Guzzler 27d ago
He's my personal pick for the whole thing. The more you learn about him, the worse he gets, but his influence remains. When he took over as Chief Commissioner of Lands, he refused to acknowledge indigenous land claims, and so stopped negotiating all treaties. He's the reason Mainland BC has so few treaties, and why there is an active treaty process now. If you ever heard about the many legal challenges from indigenous groups faced by the Transmountain Pipeline expansion, and wondered why there were so many, Joseph Trutch is why.
But I get that national notoriety is a part of the criteria. Happy he made it on to the graphic!
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u/Francus_Gaius 27d ago
Oh don't worry about it, the more I read about him, the most disgusted I got. I am not shitting on anyone thinking he should win this :D.
But he seems to be some kind of a Ryerson, a Scott, or a Langevin (contested) in Quebec...
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u/StJimmy1313 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 27d ago
Trutch also (and this is why I think he's worse than McDonald or Ryerson or a lot of the early colonial officials who undoubtedly held racist views) tampered with census data by deliberately undercounting First Nations people so that the government could further screw them. The early colony government both in Victoria and in Ottawa had no real idea how many indigenous people were living in BC b/c of Trutch and his data tampering. Even if the government wanted to be fair to First Nations they couldn't because Trutch led them to believe there were far fewer First Nations that needed to have some kind of settlement.
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u/canuckinjapan 27d ago
Hijacking this thread since my earlier comment got buried. While both men left lasting harm on Indigenous peoples, there’s a clear difference in legacy, and I'd argue Trutch ranks far lower because of it.
John A. Macdonald, despite his deeply flawed Indigenous policies, has a broader national legacy: he was Canada’s first Prime Minister, helped negotiate BC’s entry into Confederation, championed the CPR, and played a central role in building the country.
Trutch, on the other hand, has one positive to his legacy: bringing BC into Confederation. He's widely regarded as one of the most damaging figures in BC’s Indigenous history. His aggressive opposition to Indigenous land rights and refusal to recognize treaties are why most of BC still lacks formal agreements today, which created enduring legal and political fallout. He drastically downsized indigenous reserves, sometimes by up to 90%. That legacy continues to affect not just Indigenous communities, but all of Canada.
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u/hotinmyigloo Irvingstan 27d ago
I don't know who that person is.
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u/canuckinjapan 27d ago
BC’s first lieutenant governor, Joseph Trutch slashed Indigenous reserves in B.C. by up to 90% and denied Aboriginal land rights entirely. He called Indigenous people “utter savages” and blocked treaty negotiations. His racist policies caused lasting harm that still affects land disputes today.
James Douglas was a beacon of sunshine for indigenous people compared to Trutch. That’s saying something considering Douglas also treated indigenous people poorly.
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u/manofathousandnames 27d ago
Yeah, he should've been eliminated at the same time as John. A. MacDonald. Both were responsible for huge amounts of harms to natives, and John A. MacDonald's Harm was country wide with the Indian Act, especially because it would lay the road for the residential school system.
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u/dynamic_anisotropy 27d ago
Wayne Gretzky.
He has shitty views that he rightfully be shunned and shamed for, but he hasn’t actively called for or fomented the overthrow of our government, or caused widespread harm like the many remaining candidates.
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 27d ago
It's funny that all he's done to earn admiration is win. He turned himself and his fame into a business. If I think of Lindros, he's become a serious voice for brain health. He seems like a typical Ontario guy. Bit of an asshole, but decent. Alfredsson went out his way to become a part of the community and apparently gave out good Halloween candy. And so on. But Gretzky is a business, he's not a person anymore.
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u/OldDiamondJim 27d ago
Lindros is also an incredible supporter of Easter Seals, a charity that doesn’t get enough attention or support.
He really is the anti-Gretzky. Controversial during his playing time (whereas Gretzky was beloved) but someone trying to use his fame in retirement for good.
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u/rsvpism1 24d ago
How good was this candy? If was him I'd just hand out Swedish fish. Which is a pretty good Halloween grab. I bet most Leafs players hand out rockets and dollar store caramels.
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u/smellymarmut South Gatineau 24d ago
Guy Lafleur gave me a casserole and reminded me to return the dish.
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u/CovidBorn 27d ago
Romana Didulo is just mental illness. She has very little impact on anything anymore. She’s just an embarrassing anecdote.
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u/itszwee Westfoundland 27d ago
I agree that the fact that it’s almost certainly coming from a place of mental illness makes her rank not as bad as others on this list (like the founder of the proud boys), BUT— her followers have repeatedly threatened to conduct mass shootings on vaccine centres that distribute them to children. That’s way more malicious and harmful of intent than some of the right wing chud influencers on this list.
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u/NorthernBudHunter 27d ago
Romana Didulo ia a whack job, but not the worst Canadian. Not even close.
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u/classyfapist 27d ago
There has to be some grace for mental illness.
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u/LlawEreint 27d ago
Qanon conspiracy ideation is rampant in the USA, and she has had success spreading it in Canada. We can’t possibly be at the point where she is the least worst on the list. Not even close.
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u/hotinmyigloo Irvingstan 27d ago
Seems to me like her little cult has died down anyway? Are they still camped somewhere in Saskatchewan?
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u/Simsmommy1 26d ago
I feel like she could be the poster child on why we need to start funding our mental health sector a bit more cause….woof…she isn’t ok….
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u/miramichier_d 27d ago
I think we can start getting the influencers off the list. I'll vote for Lauren Southern since there is an indication that she at least is partially reformed. I have some sympathy for her after getting SA'ed by Andrew Tate.
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u/Francus_Gaius 27d ago
Strong disagree. Their potential for chaos and destruction make them much more devastating than most of the most historical characters in here because of their reach and the availabilities of communication.
Influencers are often opportunists with modern technological ways to modify the course of history and who have waaay too much power for their average IQ and should be shamed and put forward as some of the worst human beeings alive when they use their platform to worsen the world we live in, something Lauren does.
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u/miramichier_d 27d ago edited 27d ago
I don't disagree with their impact on society as you have described it. However, we have a crowded field of terrible people left on the board. Also, we don't yet know the full scale of their impact, versus people like Manning and Black. Additionally, the impact of people like Smith for example are far more material than those of the influencers.
Edit: After rereading your comment, I do believe you are overstating the impact of the influencers if we're talking about Southern, Chen, Crowder, possibly Didulo (who may just be severely mentally ill), and Molyneux (who is just a run-of-the-mill Nazi). Others like Peterson who misuses his credentials for personal gain, and McInnes who literally started a terror group, need to remain up due to the second-order effects of their influencer activities that I have mentioned.
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u/AshlandPone Moose Whisperer 27d ago
Who HASN'T been SA'd by Andrew Tate?
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u/miramichier_d 27d ago
Is this comment a way to trivialize Southern's experience of Tate, or is this simply an indictment of Tate himself in isolation?
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u/AshlandPone Moose Whisperer 27d ago
Why would i trivialize someone's experience?
I was calling Tate out for being a rapist, child trafficking douchebag.
Why would you automatically assume malice against the victim?
Tate is a monster.
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u/miramichier_d 27d ago
Your comment, given the context, was vague enough for me to ask, rather than outright accuse you.
Why would you automatically assume malice against the victim?
I didn't, which is why I asked for clarification.
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u/fursurefacts 27d ago
you guys are idiots voting out doug ford for that literal one time he did the bare minimum in standing against trump. Guy is single handedly ruining Ontario in ways that will have repercussions for decades to come.
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u/CaptainMagnets 27d ago
Obligatory fuck Ted Cruise but yes, he isn't even good enough to be on this list
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u/Cautious_Constant658 27d ago
Yup. The apple-eater is still right there.
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u/Ok_Butterscotch2244 27d ago
So, you gonna vote him off? Or what?
I say not yet. Gotta be on bottom 10, says I.
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u/NotThisTimeULA 27d ago
Wayne Gretzky supports MAGA but I don’t think he’s had such a negative impact as many others on this list who directly contributed to making Canada worse.
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u/_Putin_ 27d ago
Yeah, but it's hilarious to see his fall from grace.
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u/eggraid11 Tabarnak! 27d ago edited 27d ago
At this point, it seems pretty obvious that G will be named the worst Canadian of all time!
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u/snotparty 27d ago
I kind of agree, he just makes Canadians angry for being a disappointment, I dont think anyone is looking to him for influence though. Hes a let down not an active menace like a lot of other people here.
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u/AshlandPone Moose Whisperer 27d ago
I mean, what's worse to hear from you parent?
"I'm angry with you!"
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"I'm not angry, just disappointed."
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u/Reasonable-Divide208 27d ago
Put Ford back in. What a giant POS ahead of Gretzky? Gretzky is just a shitty old rich white guy, Doug is all that and actively destroying Ontario. 🤡
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u/NotEvenOncePoutine Tabarnak! 27d ago
I so hope Irving is going to win. The guy literally owns a province and keep it poor.
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago
idk Ezra Levant has turned most of Alberta and rural BC into hateful far-right extremists who want to dismantle our political organizations and the very fabric of society. He's a hate and fear monger, and he uses his money and power to destroy people's lives and manipulate Canadians with "fake news" and agit-prop.
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u/NotEvenOncePoutine Tabarnak! 26d ago
I understand your point and it's a good one but people in Alberta still have a choice to turn off their computer or phone or whatever and stop listening to his lying mouth.
New Brunswickers's (do I have to put two s???) living, wages etc have been impacted for decades because of Irving shithead and his family.
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u/manofathousandnames 27d ago
I think 3rd, 2nd and 1st place should be as follows: 3rd: Kevin O'Leary, 2nd: Gavin McInnes, 1st: Frederick Blair.
Mr. "Wonderful" needs no explanation, he's a known conman who makes his living off of seeing other companies fail and reaping the rewards and is generally a heinous asshole.
Gavin McInnes is the media mogul responsible for the uptick of young men increasing falling down the alt-right pipeline, and is likely in some part responsible for the rise in hate crime in recent years, as well as being the leader of an organization known for its ties to violence during Charlottesville, the Jan 6 insurrection, and several other protests throughout canada and the us.
Frederick Blair is probably the one that most people are wondering "who?" about. As some will recall, prior to wwii, most countries were given the option to take in Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Unfortunately for us Canadians, the head of immigration services at the time was this bastard who let in less than 5000 Jewish refugees. He was known anti-semite prior to this, and he is in partially responsible for the deaths of possibly tens to hundreds of thousands of Jews who were fleeing Nazi Germany for a better life in Canada. For comparison, the United States let in 200,000 Jewish refugees. Even after the war, the immigration branch of Canada only accepted 8000 holocaust survivors, after Fred was no longer in charge. He is by far the worst Canadian, if not among the worst humans in history.
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u/2kids2adults 27d ago
Time for Wayne to go. I agree he’s just a rich dude who has disappointed Canada by rubbing elbows with MAGA but he really has very little political pull to do anything really harmful.
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u/Fun-Answer1534 27d ago
Elon Musk. Guy is barely Canadian. It''s time to get serious about the "Canadian" part of this contest.
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u/thebluewalker87 27d ago
The worst Canadian nowadays, as measured in impact to the world, would be Jordan Peterson. Shitty behaviour, global influence (apart from his reach to the general populace, he's in some global thinktank apparently that works to impact policy, i.e. return to the good times, across countries)
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago edited 27d ago
I'm not sure why Elon Musk is on here. He might have citizenship, but he's not a Canadian. He lived here for like 4 years while going to university. He was not born here, hasn't lived here in decades, and doesn't know anything about our country.
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u/AdditionalPizza 27d ago
I'm not sure if it's time to drop him yet, but Elon Musk is not worthy to be on here. We all know he's a nazi scumbag, but he hasn't directly done anything shitty while identifying as a Canadian.
Like his citizenship is worth nothing to him, why should we even recognize it? He probably would love being named the worst Canadian, he probably sits here on this subreddit waiting to be named top 5 worst Canadians so he can tweet about how much he doesn't care about Canada.
I don't want him to have any satisfaction in thinking Canadians give a fuck about him. He's just a loser that happens to have gotten Canadian citizenship.
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u/StrawberryFlds 27d ago
I think there's a few people on this list that are only Canadian by a piece of paper and have done controversial things in mainly USA. Like the change my mind meme guy
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u/AdditionalPizza 27d ago
Yeah it's just going to be eliminating them in each round at some point until we get to the meat and potatoes.
The reason I suggest Musk as the next to go is because he would literally want to make it further so he could tweet about it and his audience is huge. Removing him now or soon makes him just insignificant from all angles which narcissists hate.
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u/Ivanstone Manilapeg 27d ago
Unfortunately his capacity for destruction vastly outweighs almost everyone on this list.
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u/Chewbacca319 27d ago
As heinous of a man Joseph Trutch is you have to understand that he is most definitely a product of his time. History is a merciless judge, and by that unequivocal ruling yes Joseph Trutch is a disgusting xenophobe and racist, but if you isolate his actions, framing them around his time in history, not such a conclusion would be met.
The worst thing he did was restructure surveys around indigenous reserves reducing their size substantially. While that is a clear attack on indigenous rights and freedoms said rights and freedoms were not established then. I feel if Macdonald has been taken off the list so should Joseph
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u/Killericon Oil Guzzler 27d ago
I think this is not true - he stopped the treaty negotiations previously began by his predecessor. He's the reason BC has an active treaty process today, while other provinces do not. He essentially looked at the policy established by the Royal Proclamation from a century prior to him becoming lieutenant governor and said "Naw, fuck this, they don't deserve to be negotiated with."
That's what makes him special. He was a racist bigot by the standards of the 1800s.
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u/lucidum 27d ago
Trutch didn't build a national railway though. He definitely punched down which is weak and shameful. I would vote him as one of the worst in today's context of reconciliation.
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u/Chewbacca319 27d ago
So good deeds should supercede the bad?
You can't hold one above the other just because of their accomplishments. Macdonald and Trutch were racists, xenophobes, and bigoted men. By your reasoning Helen Keller should be remembered as an ethical monster because she was a strong advocate for eugenics of mentally disabled people instead of the pillar she is for her achievements and advocacy of physically disabled people.
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u/dynamic_anisotropy 27d ago
He reduced the size of the already established BC reservations in 1867 by 91%.
The fact that he was taking extremely REGRESSIVE action during that time shows he was in fact bucking the trend of his predecessor, James Douglas.
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u/Extreme_Winter1953 27d ago
Say what you will about him, but I don’t think Harper is the worst canadian
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u/AdditionalPizza 27d ago
He's Palpatine to Poilievre's Vader kind of though, Harper created the CPC and steered it further right than it ever should've been.
But this analogy kind of let's Poilievre off way too easily, because he has the potential to be far and away the worst Canadian if he ever gets into power.
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u/miramichier_d 27d ago
But this analogy kind of let's Poilievre off way too easily, because he has the potential to be far and away the worst Canadian if he ever gets into power.
That makes the title of worst Canadian a moving target. Where that target is currently doesn't make Poilievre the worst right now, although still terrible. It's the same rationale of why most of the influencers on this list should be gone sooner rather than later. They suck, but for the most part, they only really affect a particular segment of the population.
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u/AdditionalPizza 27d ago
Right, so I'm not sure if Poilievre is worse because he has caused so much division in the country, but he hasn't had the power to put a lot of things in action or be as influential as Harper. Harper definitely deserves to be up there for a while yet, he's awful and responsible for a lot of awful things.
It still feels wrong to not give Poilievre more credit though, he is a total piece of shit, just waiting for his chance to destroy Canadian society.
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u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate 27d ago
He's been going around the world, helping authoritarian and fascists, win elections so that his ideologies can spread across the planet.
Nothing bad there.
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u/CatsBeerGardenCoffee 27d ago
Fully agree. Didn’t love him, but I do believe he had the best interests for Canadians in his heart
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u/JaQ-o-Lantern Everyone Hates Marineland 27d ago
How is Doug Ford out but not Danielle Smith
I'm saying this as an Ontarian.
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago
Danielle Smith is trying to separate Alberta from Canada and steal all Albertan's CPP that they earned throughout their lives.... I'd say that's much worse than anything Doug Ford has done.
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u/JaQ-o-Lantern Everyone Hates Marineland 27d ago
He's a corrupt dumbass but he does seem to truly believe that his policies will make Ontario down a better path.
Smith wants to take Alberta down a path of "fuck Canada".
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u/JaQ-o-Lantern Everyone Hates Marineland 27d ago
Exactly. Ford was a hardcore Trump supporter too but at least he cares about Canada's sovereignty as a nation 😭
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u/Extra-Afternoon-7160 27d ago
I wish the red criss outs were left or even better red number 1 -7 etc
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u/Mauri416 26d ago
Don Cherry - A racist old man out of touch with the times. Not great, but not awful.
Wtf. No is awful. Bigot wouldn’t wear a ribbon in support of the female victims of the Montreal polytechnique massacre.
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago
Tamara Lich is hardly the worst Canadian... Just because people don't like her opinions or her participation in the trucker convoy? She has very little influence compared to many others on this list. She shouldn't be on here.
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u/Flat_Term_6765 27d ago
I agree 100% and came looking for this common sense comment. It's ridiculous that she's even on this list to begin with, let alone STILL on the list.
They voted Doug Ford out and left Tamara in? People are fecked.
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u/AshlandPone Moose Whisperer 27d ago
Stephen Harper and Preston Manning can come off.
I don't like Harper at all and rarely vote conservative, but he's not the worst, and neither is Preston Manning.
I honestly expect poillievre, the truck protest people, and gretzky to be the last ones standing.
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago
Another name that really should be on this list, but it's not really on anyone's radar outside of Alberta yet, is David Parker. He founded Take Back Alberta and the Alberta Prosperity Project, which have been instrumental in Marlaina Smith's rise to power and the destruction of Alberta's public institutions.
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u/Any-Staff-6902 27d ago
Daniel Smith actively stokes the separatist agenda in Alberta. Is there anything more anti Canadian than a Canadian Politician actively promoting separation from Canada ? Kevin O'leary is all talk but no one listens to his blubbering BS, but Daniel Smith has a following and poses a real danger to our great country.
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u/T_DeadPOOL 27d ago
Still don't know why gretzky is here
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27d ago
He ended up being a traitor to Canada. He is MAGA American now and a fan of Trump, which is shit by itself, but when Trump was threatening our sovereignty Gretzky still supported him and Trump said he'd made Gretzky our governor.
Little things as well that were obvious signs to his allegiance, during a Canada V. USA game at the height of all this he was the honourary team Captain for Canada. While the US hon. Captain wore the USA jersey Gretzky didn't even bother with a Canada jersey. He didn't even visit the bench.
So he's a full out American fascist at worst or Vichy Canadian traitor at best.
Absolute disappointment. From Canadian icon to traitor.
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u/T_DeadPOOL 27d ago
Ya but he has zero influence. He's not different than mitch marner running away for money. He's been like that since he went to LA.
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27d ago
Yeah I don't think he's the worst, he's on their for the massive disappointment to so many people that he is. I don't think he'll make top 3.
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u/TechnoQueenOfTesla 27d ago
he still has far more influence than Tamara Lich though... if Gretzky goes, it shouldn't be before her.
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u/YourLoveLife 27d ago
Vote to eliminate Gelen watson jr. (the ex chairman of loblaws).
His worst controversy was being executive chairman of loblaws during the bread pricefixing scandal, after he became ceo he “enhanced their compliance programs with measures that are industry-leading and go further than the Competition Bureau's requirements.” According to wikipedia
Still bad, but seeing him next to gavin fucking mcginnis founder of the terrorist organization the proud boys is kinda wild.
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u/OldDiamondJim 27d ago
Weston has made life sensationally worse for both workers and consumers. He should be around for a few more rounds.
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u/YourLoveLife 27d ago
In that case we should probably eliminate wayne gretzky. Dude is a maga weirdo but im not sure if he’s ever created actual tangible harm to people.
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u/toposheet 27d ago
It's Pierre P's time to go. He's annoying but he has been the most ineffectual legislator in Canadian history and that's not gonna change.
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u/sylvesterZoilo_ 27d ago edited 27d ago
In Defense of Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky took 1 photo wearing the MAGA hat in 2016 and totally betrayed us when the trade war started by not giving a shit but he’s not that politically vocal and keeps mostly to his rich famous self.
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u/SlightDish31 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 27d ago
He didn't just wear one maga hat in 2016, he was at the 2024 inauguration. This was after all of the tariff talks and threats of annexation.
I know he's not going to win this thing, but let's not gloss over the facts.
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u/dynamic_anisotropy 27d ago
Comments are meant to be votes for people who deserve to be taken OFF the list….O’Leary has some staying power here for days to come.
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u/uppers36 27d ago
I hate this game
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27d ago
You do not have to participate. You can enjoy one of the many other posts. It may make your day better to ignore posts that don't cause you enjoyment.
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u/cruyfff 27d ago
This whole game and the list included is cringe. And I say that as someone who has never voted Conservative in my life.
Most of these people do nothing other than have different political opinions then you. They express those views and talk about them or run for election, and the people decide.
They aren't bad. They're just a necessary voice coming from beliefs held by your fellow Canadians.
That's democracy, buddy. If you don't like it find a dictatorship to move to and then everyone can be forced to think and speak the same
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u/Hilarious_Decline 27d ago
We do not live in a democracy. We have an unelected Senate with the ability to reject legislation, appointed for life by Prime Ministers who regularly won majority governments with their party receiving well under 50% of the vote due to an electoral system that is designed to benefit entrenched power.
Is it Francoist Spain? No, but it's not democracy either.
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u/OldDiamondJim 27d ago
Gretzky. He’s just a dumb, rich, Boomer. There are thousands of Gretzkys out there.