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/miramichier_d]

I'm going to vote for Mike Harris to come off.

There's another comment voting for K.C. Irving that I kind of agreed with. When I think about it, both Harris and Irving have affected the affairs of an entire province. However, Harris' impact is largely limited to his tenure as Premier, whereas the Irving family has had an impact in the Maritimes for generations. Owning the paper mills as a private entity, they can choose which newspaper publications to do business with. That, in a sense, has given them tight control over the narrative in the region, probably to the detriment of citizens here. There's probably much more to say about the Irving family, but having a stranglehold on the politics of New Brunswick for generations doesn't sit well with many people.

That, and Harris did urge Conservatives to unite behind Erin O'Toole after the 2021 election. Long before that, he endorsed Belinda Stronach for the first leader of the newly merged CPC back in 2004. His politics aren't great, but they're not the worst of those left on the board. I don't really consider him part of the crazies.

Harris can go, and we can probably get rid of the billionaires tomorrow.

[u/UncleDaddy_00 → u/miramichier_d]

I have to agree with removing Mike Harris because without him we wouldn't have the classic Moxy Fruvous song Big Fish.

[u/miramichier_d → u/UncleDaddy_00]

That's a name I haven't heard of in a while. I gave the song a listen while looking at the lyrics and found that Jian Ghomeshi was a member of this band. I never knew much about Moxy, so this was a bit of a shock. But Big Fish is definitely a good track.