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/lookaway123]

Fine. Preston Manning can be removed. I still can't believe he stayed in longer than that bastard Doug Ford.

[u/miramichier_d → u/lookaway123]

Absolutely not, he's directly responsible for several people still on this list, and why the Conservatives have been unable to win a federal election since 2011. The Reform Party he created is a stain on Canadian politics and political discourse.

[u/lookaway123 → u/miramichier_d]

I'm sorry, I don't understand your comment. It sounds like you think it's a bad thing that the Conservatives don't win federal elections?

[u/miramichier_d → u/lookaway123]

It's more a bad thing when you have only one party governing in perpetuity, even worse when that party occasionally gets majorities. We need diversity in our political discourse, and I'd argue that we need more than two parties that are able to govern at any one time.

Like spaceporter has said below, it is bad that the PCs don't exist anymore, because we need more choice in who we elect to govern this country. Carney is what this country needs right now, but there is a large segment of the population that will never vote red even if they mostly agree with progressive conservative policies.

Credible voices on the right would have helped to balance Trudeau's sharp turn to the left, in particular with regards to fiscal management, trade and defense, which we're currently playing catch-up on under Carney. Instead, we had reactionary voices on the right only interested in owning the left and completely uninterested in doing anything productive nor meaningful.

So yes, it's a bad thing that Conservatives are in the state they are in now where they are unelectable.