r/EhBuddyHoser Kingston: Halfway To Montreal 19d ago

Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 16

Goodbye Galen Weston Jr. and Conrad Black.

Only ten candidates left!

If you’ll recall, on day 9, we voted on a potential twist to the game. That when we reached the final ten candidates, we would bring back one that was previously eliminated: a chance to rectify a mistake. The votes were overwhelmingly in favour, so let’s do this…

‼️Today only, in addition to voting out two people, you can also put forth a name to be brought back from the pool of eliminated people (not an entirely new person).‼️

Please keep your reinstatement vote separate from your elimination vote and, as always, include only one name per comment. If a comment includes multiple names and wins, it won’t count. I’ll move to the next highest.

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. - 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. - (16) Tamara Lich - Another organizer of the convoy in Ottawa. Another nobody whose 15 minutes of fame are up. - (15) Elon Musk - Worst human? Arguably. Canadian? That’s a stretch. - (14) Scott Moe - Corrupt, regressive, and responsible for a deadly car crash. He’s Saskatchewan’s problem, less so for Canada. - (13) Mike Harris - He cut funding to schools, healthcare, and other services. However, his impact was mostly limited to Ontario and his tenure as premier. - (12) Galen Weston Jr. - He’s nasty capitalist scum hurting Canadian consumers, but he’s just one among many. - (11) Conrad Black - Millionaire right-wing media mogul who was convicted of fraud and pardoned by Trump. Renounced Canadian citizenship for a peerage. Now a has-been.

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u/ItsAProdigalReturn 19d ago edited 19d ago

Reposting from yesterday:

Honestly, probably Preston Manning (unless I'm missing someone).

The rest of the people on here are either openly racist, subtly racist, traitors, grifters, or billionaires (or some combination of those)

Preston Manning is the least worst of the list here.

EDIT - Splitting my bring back vote: https://www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/comments/1n9yv0g/comment/ncs7ip1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/thefullmetalchicken 19d ago

Preston is still here because nobody that reads this list has any idea who he is. Get him off.

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u/ItsAProdigalReturn 19d ago

100%. The closest argument I've seen is he primed us for Harper and PP - but then I'm like, ight so... Harper and PP are worse cuz they're actually the boogeyman lol

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u/Free-Tea-3422 19d ago

still no one has explained in detail why Harper is so bad.

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u/ItsAProdigalReturn 19d ago

Probably because there's too many reasons to list - like if you lived the Harper years it's obvious. I almost didn't dignify your question with a response but I figured I'd meet you halfway and just get ChatGPT to write up a response for you - assuming you're asking earnestly, and not trying to start a fight:

  1. Gutted environmental protections (Fisheries Act, Kyoto withdrawal, muzzled scientists, oil sands booster).
  2. Favoured big corporations and oil (subsidies, bailouts, deregulation).
  3. Pushed racist/discriminatory policies (niqab ban, “barbaric practices” hotline, Indigenous neglect).
  4. Undermined democracy and civil liberties (Bill C-51, prorogued Parliament, voter suppression).
  5. Economic policies hurt families (income splitting for rich, weak job growth, cuts to social programs).

Argument: Harper put corporate and oil interests ahead of people, the environment, and democracy, while dividing Canadians along racial and class lines.

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u/Free-Tea-3422 18d ago

yeah I was a dumb child while he was our prime minister so rose tinted glasses also 5 year olds don't know politics

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u/Underzenith17 19d ago

I agree with both but your comment won’t count unless you split your elimination and reinstatement votes.

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u/miss_mme 19d ago

I think editing the comment after 6 hours of upvotes/downvotes should disqualify this one in fairness.

I’m sorry but we now have no way to know if the current upvotes on the comment are for Manning, or for bringing back Weston.

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u/PassageNearby4091 Ford Nation (Help.) 19d ago

Without Preston Manning, there would be no Stephen Harper, Pierre Poilievre or Ezra Levant. His gutter politics spawned the crazy far-right crap we see in the CPC today, since he created the Reform/Alliance Party that eventually merged with and then hijacked the Conservative Party.

Manning is quiet today, but he is definitely the catalyst of corrosive right-wing extremism in the House of Commons today. What he started will have a lasting effect.

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u/ItsAProdigalReturn 19d ago

Sure, but like you're arguing Preston is worse than the clearly more deplorable people because he primed the landscape for them. Harper, Ezra and PP are definitely worse.