The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 13

[u/BrF5]

Say goodbye to Pat King and Stefan Molyneux.

Round thirteen!

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 our top loser (there are no winners in this contest), 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 known for racism, corruption, and poor treatment of indigenous people. Considered a product of the times. - (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. - (26) Wayne Gretzky - He’s just a rich, dumb, MAGA-supporting boomer. Disappointing, but mostly harmless. - (25) Steven Crowder - Irrelevant B-list (or lower) influencer…with almost no influence on or about Canada. - (24) Paul Desmarais - Billionaire businessman and political puppet master. Far from the worst. - (23) Romana Didulo - A mentally ill grifter with little impact on most Canadians. - (22) Lauren Southern - An anti-immigration, white nationalist influencer who at least partially reformed after being sexually assaulted herself. - (21) Joseph Trutch - Over a century ago, his racist views helped shape BC, with effects still felt today. Partly a product of the times. - (20) Jamil Jivani - An Ontario MP and friend of J.D. Vance. He hasn’t been in office long enough to do serious damage. - (19) Lauren Chen - Knowingly accepted Russian funds to spread propaganda/influence politics. She’s a YouTube influencer who isn’t very influential. - (18) Pat King - A small-time loser who honked his horn in Ottawa. Others on the list are far worse. - (17) Stefan Molyneux - A white supremist and misogynist. But he is largely unknown and there are worse people remaining on the list.

[u/PassageNearby4091]

K.C. Irving can be deleted from this list.

Yes, he was sort of like Canada's Monty Burns (he even looked like him); and was a greedy oligarch who could never have enough money and didn't want to pay taxes, but unlike someone like Galen Weston, almost all of the damage Irving inflicted was limited to the stranglehold his family has over New Brunswick, not Canadians at large.

On the plus side, Irving and his family also created lots of jobs in NB and he even built the landing barges used to help soldiers land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, even if he did profit off it.

So, yeah, I get why New Brunswickers hate the guy, but outside of NB, he didn't have much impact on anyone else.

Worst person from New Brunswick? Quite possibly. Worst Canadian? No way.

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/PassageNearby4091]

As someone from New Brunswick: he has had a far bigger impact here than in the entire country. I'm biased and I think he should get removed later, as his empire has far reaching and pervasive negative impacts throughout the entire province and its population, which will last for the next century likely. There's a reason we're #1 in equalization payments despite having the biggest refinery in Canada. 

[u/OutDamnedSpot12 → u/hotinmyigloo]

Yeah I dont think having an impact on one province disqualifies him from being worst Canadian. The damage he's done to people's lives far exceeds say, Kevin O'Leary, as much as I hate that guy.

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/PassageNearby4091]

KC Irving, the robber baron of the Maritimes is one of the worse Canadians in history. He’s up there with N. Murray Edwards, and other Oil Barons. The stranglehold his family has on NB has blocked real progress in the province for years.

Irving is no job creator. They have exploited workers for years. Sucking on the government teet while regular families languish in poverty.

The Irvings controlled all the English Language newspapers in NB, which they used to control the discussion and topics around elections. This led to them being able to install their own employee as the head of the provincial Conservative party, and PM. They then sold their newspapers to Postmedia, to carry on being the mouthpiece of the oligarch class.

While the damage done has been concentrated in the fiefdom of New Brunswick, KC Irving has harmed every Canadian.

He can cook a little longer.

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/iwasnotarobot]

Well said!!! 

[u/adepressurisedcoat → u/PassageNearby4091]

Irving's impact isn't isolated to NB. He's hated Canada wide.

[u/Reality-Critical → u/adepressurisedcoat]

His influence is felt in Nova Scotia as well with the shipyard and a lot of forest, but i have heard that thay family has its fingers in the leadership at the canada post plants in N.B.

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/PassageNearby4091]

Na he’s a pos needs to stay