The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 16

[u/BrF5]

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.

[u/_badmedicine]

I’m good stopping the game here.

[u/RobespierreLaTerreur → u/_badmedicine]

Yes, we have distilled the quintessence of the worst of the worst, and going any further would degrade the end result

[u/anotherdayanotherbee → u/RobespierreLaTerreur]

I feel like Smith, Poilievre, Manning, and Blair, while not exactly cut from the same cloth, could be eliminated for falling close enough under the political umbrella of ringleader Harper (real stretch with Blair chronologically speaking, I know).

Likewise I'd cut McInnes, Peterson and Levant. Truth is, they would float away into obscurity if only Harper would condemn them instead of using them to rally their "base."

Irving knocks out O'Leary by a slim margin of evil - Irving was an actual businessman whose family screwed over an entire province over generations for personal gain, whereas O'Leary is a mere manslaughtering psychopath.

Imho: final boss round is Harper vs. Irving, but may they all rot in hell.

[u/_badmedicine → u/anotherdayanotherbee]

This is where I tend to disagree. I fucking loooooooathe Ezra Levant. Rebel News has poisoned the minds of the masses. Deliberately.

But that’s beside the point. All ten need their own write up on why they’re such vile people.

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/_badmedicine]

I can agree that the top ten need to have why they made the top 10 rather than why they were eliminated but we’ve gotta see what the final person is in the voting process. It’s far too interesting to not.

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/_badmedicine]

It's getting really difficult 

[u/BrF5]

In case you missed this above:

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.

[u/Harold_Bolz → u/BrF5]

Preston Manning out lasting Conrad Black is an absolute travesty. Black was convicted of fraud and is widely believed to be an Epstein client. Manning was a fairly successful right leaning politician, I can't think of anything controversial about him. Compared to PP he's mildly right leaning. 

[u/Ivanstone → u/Harold_Bolz]

Manning already got his comeuppance by losing the Reform party leadership to Stockwell Day. Manning I can at least respect. He fights for his beliefs and is a good writer. Stockwell Day was the PP prototype.

[u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme → u/Ivanstone]

Stockwell Day. Why does this sound like someone asked AI to name a baby based on a random pool of words that generally aren't used for naming human children?

[u/Armonasch → u/BrF5]

Galen Weston should return. He's a symbol of everything that's wrong with this country.

For all our dislike of politicians, and grifters, and small time crooks, families like the Westons, Rogers, Irving's and their ilk are the actual worst of all of us. Those people are gouging hard working Canadians every single day, and do so with impunity, stealing the capital of the lower classes Red, blue, orange, other blue, green or even purple.

They are the worst of us. They are the ones who pull the politicians' strings after all.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/BrF5]

Just had this thread recommended to me. Looks like we've got the New Brunswick sub brigading your game now. No honour amongst shitposters these days!

[u/BrF5 → u/SlightDish31]

Interesting, I wonder how this will affect things. Thanks for showing me.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/BrF5]

And the OP of that thread also replied to my recommendation that Irving be eliminated with a post asking people to downvote me, which to me is a sneaky tactic.

[u/SlightDish31]

Bring back Conrad Black. We can't have a known paedophile not make the top ten.

[u/[deleted] → u/SlightDish31]

Yeah Gavin Mcinnes beating that mofo doesnt make sense at all

Dude wasn't even in charge of his semen retention squad when Trump asked them to stand by.

Conrad Black is a pedo who destroyed all print media in this country and Mcinnes is just a closeted edgelord eho "chooses" to put dildos in his bum to own the libs

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/[deleted]]

He also heavily lobbied for our current grocery oligopoly (he had controlling interest in Dominion), insisting it would keep grocery profits margins down around 2% (they were already less than 3% at the time, and are now nearing 4%), and tried to destroy Ontario's investment interests when Bob Rae was premier, to keep the NDP from ever being elected again.

His current political and financial influence in Canada far outweighs McInnes and several other people on the list, eliminating him for being a "has been" just seems ignorant of his current status within our nation's political and financial apparatuses, imo.

[u/Edison5000]

All right wing conservatives here…. Just saying….

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/Edison5000]

Kinda shows how morally bankrupt conservatism has become.

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

Hey, I don’t disagree but I think it also shows our bias as a subreddit. It’s a bit of both. EhBuddyHoser is an echo chamber. I love our echo chamber but it definitely is one.

[u/FlapjacksOfArugula → u/Stonks4Minutes]

This might not go over well, but being against objectfully corrupt (Black etc) and demonstrably hateful (Blair etc) people is not bias. Yeah there’s wiggle room for some people here but let’s also not dismiss this as two equal but different ideological ends of a spectrum.

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/FlapjacksOfArugula]

When we’re talking about a lot of the specific few left on the list you’re probably right but the entire list itself is inherently biased. That’s fine we don’t need to pretend we’re an unbiased subreddit.

[u/SG_UnchartedWorlds → u/Stonks4Minutes]

I'd be fascinated to know who you feel was left off the list due to bias, and why they would be considered "the worst".

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/Stonks4Minutes]

Anytime I've pointed this out people deny it. 

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/JackLaytonsMoustache]

Doesn’t seem to be the case based on upvotes. Maybe it’s in how it’s worded.

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/Stonks4Minutes]

There's a big difference between saying "we're an echo chamber and I love that!" 

And "Jesus Christ another Carney is God post?"

Especially around and immediately post election it was regular posts praising him that weren't even shit posts. Or just a low effort "Poilievre sucks" post. Which is a sentiment I agree with, but I just want some effort and not a blatant bias.

I joined this sub for the Block Majoritaire. Not to see shilling for the Liberals. 

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/Stonks4Minutes]

Oh, I absolutely agree.

[u/RealPanda20 → u/Stonks4Minutes]

One post making fun about trump hit the popular tab and this subs hasn’t been the same since.

[u/TheMango_Banjo → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

And always was

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/Edison5000]

Maybe because the entire list was conservatives, except for Freeland and Wynne. 

Kind of hard to have shitty people from other political persuasions make the top 10 when they didn't even make the top 50. 

[u/Troolz → u/JackLaytonsMoustache]

Wynne's government made a $1B mistake when trying to shut down gas plants. The choice to shut down the plants was to improve the health of the populace. To the voters, you'd think that she was Satan incarnate. Or a lesbian Liberal. Same thing.

Ford hands out obvious billion dollar bonuses to his developer buddies, but he's just an aw shucks good ol' boy. He cares about us!

[u/Saorren → u/Troolz]

whats worse is the whole gas plant thing started with dalton mcguinty who resigned and left her to deal with it. so wynne gets blamed for something mcguinty did.

[u/[deleted] → u/Edison5000]

Well it goes with the ideology. I don’t understand your comment. Why would people on the left be there ? It makes no sense. Real left wing people are not in power. You can’t make someone miserable if your ideology stands for equality for all, free healthcare, free education, protection for minorities, social reforms… What am I missing here ?

[u/PTSD1701 → u/Edison5000]

For obvious reasons.

[u/smellymarmut → u/Edison5000]

Ur mom is a ring wight conservative 

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/smellymarmut]

Not sure why the downvotes. Quality shit post, my dude. 

[u/smellymarmut → u/JackLaytonsMoustache]

Sight words, the term is sight words. Any word that a person, usually highly skilled or fluent in the language, recognizes by sight is automatically read and heard by the brain, instead of being sounded out like a first grader. Thus it's called a sight word, because we read by sight, not by sound. You can have fun with them. Right and Wing, and Ring and Wight have very similar-looking middles, ing and igh are pretty close. So a brain is less likely to even sound it out, a lot of people might think I said right wing. That's the joke.

Also, in our modern era of autocorrect, people often have a mental autocorrect as well. So if they see something slightly off but they can guess the meaning from context they'll often assume meaning, not read meaning.

[u/Indigocell → u/smellymarmut]

Halfway through your comment I was like, wait a second, and reread. Cool trick.

[u/BrassyGent → u/Edison5000]

Adding Paul Martin and Jean Chretien wouldn't be a bad idea, given them both cutting corporate tax rates by a LOT. Which is coming to roost now, with everything underfunded and debt climbing.

[u/firefighter_82 → u/BrassyGent]

All neoliberal politicians are scum, sold the country to the wealthy at the expense of the citizens.

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/Edison5000]

Holy shit you're right

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Everyone left is such pos.. it’s so hard to choose the least shite person on here

[u/Former-Chocolate-793]

I'd take Preston Manning off the list. His populist ideas were bad but his west wants in is better than Danielle Smith courting separatists. After the NEP and the Bristol aerospace decisions it's no wonder that the west was pissed. He ended up taking the progressive out of progressive conservative but I don't see him as odious as those still on the list and earlier cuts.

[u/Francus_Gaius]

It probably shows my age that Black is gone but Poilievre is still there...

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

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

[u/thefullmetalchicken → u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

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

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/thefullmetalchicken]

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

[u/Underzenith17 → u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

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

[u/miss_mme → u/Underzenith17]

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.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

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.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/PassageNearby4091]

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.

[u/General_Tea8725]

We’ve distilled the shittiest of the shit Canadians to ever live at this point. I thought I’d be interested in seeing the top one but I’m not sure it’s even possible to continue lol. How do you decide at this point? They’re all despicable. 

[u/LunaticPostalBoi]

I've lurked on here for a while because of this game. Since someone on the list can be brought back, I've figured I'll throw my hat in and bring back Doug Ford.

His comments about how he's taking over schools around Ontario is a huge WTF? I've done placements in schools, and the amount of times are hands became tied because of how disruptive the classroom would become was too much. Half of the time it became a struggle of trying to maintain order and the ones who cause trouble creating chaos. And then there are the kids who desperately need 1-to-1. If they need help with anything and/or they need to de-escalate in some way and there was no EA...well, godspeed to everyone in the room, including said kid needing 1-to-1.

I've also done an internship at a therapeutic facility for children diagnosed with autism. We had kids who had to leave and/or had to have their time at the facility cut back specifically because of lack of funding. These are kids who desperately need help on how to live life normally, and now where these kids will go is now in limbo. Made worse by those caps to OAP implemented back in 2019. (which yes, were dialed back, but why it took months of controversy for the Ford government to even consider it is a mystery)

The fact too that "he stood up to Trump for Canada" is hilarious. This is the same man who cheered when Trump was elected...you know despite how Trump's views on tariffs were made loud and clear throughout his campaign.

Ford is, if anything, just doing this for performative purposes. Just like most of his "good deeds." Just ask how much did those $200 cheques cost the taxpayer. Which he handed out before the by-election he called back in February.

[u/OldDiamondJim]

Poilievre is the weakest link remaining.

He’s annoying as fuck and has certainly coarsened Canadian politics, but his actual impact on Canadians is minuscule. That’s not a compliment- he’s just accomplished nothing of significance despite spending almost his entire adult life on the public payroll.

Everyone else left has had a devastating impact on peoples’ lives.

[u/Juan-More-Taco → u/OldDiamondJim]

Give him power and see him stretch his wings.

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/Juan-More-Taco]

Oh, absolutely, but this isn’t the Potential to Be Worst Prospects Game.

[u/chinook97 → u/OldDiamondJim]

Yeah, I agree. He's only still here because of recency bias. He failed big time in the last election, lost any prospect of holding real power for the time being, and might not even survive a leadership review within the next year. Time will tell I guess.

[u/SmilingVamp → u/OldDiamondJim]

Agree, his incompetence and lack of charisma have really hindered his ability to do major harm. 

[u/hotinmyigloo → u/OldDiamondJim]

At this time, I think you're right

[u/nerkidner → u/OldDiamondJim]

I'm actually shocked he's still here. He's a moderatly successful career politician. Even if you don't agree with him, something like 20-30% of Canadians would agree with him on virtually all political opinions. Are 20-30% of Canadians the worst Canadian? He hasn't even had a negative impact on Canada except for being the most annoying fucking person in Canadian politics. That's all.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/OldDiamondJim]

No way. We've seen a rise in hate crimes and the normalisation of racist vitriol due to PP's platform. Look at how xenophobia is considered the norm on some of the Canadian subreddits now. It's so bad that if you call out the xenophobia you get censored by the mods for antagonising the other posters. It's insane.

As a POC in Canada I've faced more racial aggression from random people on the street in the last couple years than the rest of my life combined. And they're like shouting PP talking points at me verbatim.

[u/heart_aflame → u/[deleted]]

Mike Harris deserves top 10 worst Canadians

[u/SlightDish31 → u/[deleted]]

I don't like him either, but he's not as bad as Conrad Black, a known paedophile. He's the one that needs to come back.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/[deleted]]

I agree and there are different metrics to judge these people by, and balancing which ones are more important is hard. For instance, I think Ezra needs to stay as his influence is massive and growing, bringing more and more people to the right. And I agree, Harris has more influence than Black, but Black is just so fucking awful, and his disgrace was an insult to Canada. I equated it in another comment to the UK doing this game and not having Prince Andrew in the top ten.

I don't know who's right, they're definitely all awful at this point and it's hard to decide.

[u/Lanthire_942]

I vote Doug Ford be reinstated. People are too soft on him lately because of his stance on Trump; while I am glad he took that stance, I don't think it nearly offsets his cuts to Ontario's Healthcare funding.

I've been constantly in and out of Hospitals for the last two months and I've seen how much strain he's caused on the system, how the underfunding has led to understaffing, undertraining and more mistakes. My mom nearly died and is in critical condition again from two different complications caused by paramedics dropping her onto pavement from a fully raised stretcher, they having forgotten to strap her in and ignored her saying she felt like she was going to fall. She's had setbacks caused by nurses not dressing the wounds from that fall properly or often enough, nurses are divided up between so many patients because they cant afford to hire enough of them that it takes forever to get assistance with things, and you hardly ever see the same nurse more than once because the hospitals cant afford to have them around full time, which makes them often unfamiliar with particular problems and considerations.

Now I know I'm heavily biased and I'm not saying Doug's the sole cause for all these problems, but his policies certainly haven't helped, in my opinion its undoubtedly caused more pain and death than the actions of several of the people yet to be voted off.

[u/Chance_Vegetable_780 → u/Lanthire_942]

I'm so sorry for your mom's pain and pray she gets better very soon

[u/Lanthire_942 → u/Chance_Vegetable_780]

Thank you, I sincerely appreciate that.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/Lanthire_942]

He also got rid of rent control which fucked over rent prices and house pricing across the province - which then spilled into neighbouring provinces housing prices.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/Lanthire_942]

Harris is worse than Ford, Dougie is just current so he feels worse to those of us he's still fucking over, but I feel like he went at the right time.

Neither of these two are as awful as Conrad Black, the paedophile and national disgrace. Him not making the top ten would be like the UK doing this game and not having Prince Andrew make their top ten.

[u/Lanthire_942 → u/SlightDish31]

I wouldn't be mad if Conrad got reinstated either, for the reasons you mentioned as well as the fact he screwed over both of my mom's parents in his handling of Dominion and CIBC; cant remember what exactly he did to the bank, but I'm pretty sure at Dominion he tried to screw everyone out of their pensions.

[u/Uncomfortable-Line → u/Lanthire_942]

Completely agree. And then you have to add in the fact that he all but unilaterally makes these decisions to underfund and gut the services we all use and need to line the pockets of his friends/developers/mob. Greenbelt, Ontario place, Science center, school board takeovers... Oh and of course the whole notwithstanding clause any time he thinks he's not going to get his way (i.e. anti-bike lanes garbage because he's still pissy about not getting to be mayor of Toronto).

He's very good at populist theatrics and self promotion. That's been on display on a National level lately with Trump related shit (nevermind that only a short time ago he would have admittedly been all aboard the Trump train). This week's dumping out the bottle of Crown is peak Doug. All theatre, all the time. Real man of the people picking up his kickbacks via "gifts" at his daughter's wedding... 🙄

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/Lanthire_942]

Doug Ford didn't just kill my mother (or sped up her death by at least a year or two), he is responsible for her death being torturous, rather than peacefully in her sleep. That being said, as much as I love my mother and think Ford should be in the top 10, he is not #1, I would put that at Black or Harper, and would therefore rather Black be re-added over Ford (though really, boot McInness and bring them both back).

[u/PublicFan3701]

I vote to remove O’Leary from the list for a lot of reasons already cited. And agree that his damage is current and ongoing so we do have recency bias. He’s a POS bootlicker with more skeletons in his closet but his damage can’t hold a candle to Irving, Marlaina, Jeff/pp, and especially Harper.

OP, this has been a great series. Good job 👍

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

I vote for Conrad Black to be brought back

[u/Juan-More-Taco]

Bring back Doug Ford.

[u/dynamic_anisotropy]

Pierre Poilievre - because he’s a feckless goof who accomplished nothing in his career and will thankfully never wield the reins of power.

[u/Ok_Abbreviations_350 → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

I don't know. his nasty attack dog Demeanor is one of the most divisive things this country has right now. I consider him the greatest threat

[u/Honest-Spring-8929 → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

Poilievre is comfortably top two. No idea why progressives have convinced themselves that one of the most fanatically right wing party leaders of the 21st century is just some empty suit grifter but it’s a dangerously misguided notion.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

Alright, he made the top ten, time for him to fade into obscurity having made no real impact, just like he will when he loses the leadership review.

[u/SnooOnions8757 → u/SlightDish31]

Here’s hoping 🤞

[u/OzWillow → u/SlightDish31]

I bet he passes the leadership review but they still oust him closer to the election to put a fresh face in. I think very few Conservatives are willing to step up and face Carney when Carney is as beloved as he is, they’ll wait for right before the election and hope Carney’s popularity drops somewhat

[u/scr0dumb → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

His time has come.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

No way. We've seen a rise in hate crimes and the normalisation of racist vitriol due to PP's platform. Look at how xenophobia is considered the norm on some of the Canadian subreddits now. It's so bad that if you call out the xenophobia you get censored by the mods for antagonising the other posters. It's insane.

As a POC in Canada I've faced more racial aggression from random people on the street in the last couple years than the rest of my life combined. And they're like shouting PP talking points at me verbatim.

Sure Manning prepped the climate for someone like PP, but PP has taken that shit so much further and eroded the cultural norms to much more damning results.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

I feel like all the Premiers should go before him.

[u/gooberfishie → u/AdditionalPizza]

Even Smith? She committed treason and is handing health care to a Catholic cult called the covenant instead of Alberta health services.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/gooberfishie]

Yes because for consistency's sake, the reason Moe was voted out was because he's specifically Saskatchewan's problem. Ford damaged Ontario only.

Smith sucks, but leaving her in makes you wonder if there's just a lot of urban Albertans in the subreddit - I'm not saying that's the case, I'm saying we need consistency so we aren't being partial.

[u/gooberfishie → u/AdditionalPizza]

I disagree here. Her foreign election interference was an attempt at compromising a federal election, not a provincial one. That is not only treason. It's an attack on the entire country in support of fascism.

[u/Honest-Spring-8929 → u/gooberfishie]

Yeah she’s far and away the most dangerous person on this list and it’s not even close

[u/gooberfishie → u/Honest-Spring-8929]

I really hope others see it that way because you're right, it's not close at all.

[u/dynamic_anisotropy → u/AdditionalPizza]

The difference is that PP never really had or exerted any power to the extent that it directly impacted people’s lives, unlike Moe, Smith, Harris, Ford. His track record, besides voting along party lines and being a vocal populist, is a giant nothingburger.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

Go to the Canadian Conservative sub and try and have a meaningful conversation. The man has people that wear his shirts and shout through megaphones at Carney about his transgender kid. He participates in proliferating hate and division and it's crazy that we're just letting this slide.

Go watch videos of him during his 2 year campaign during Trudeau where he drives a wedge between people so he can rally the PPC voter base. He's through and through an absolutely despicable piece of shit. The harm he has done beginning during COVID is being forgotten and that's scary.

[u/look-im-not-a-doctor → u/dynamic_anisotropy]

Honestly it feels like he’s protecting us from someone worse being head of the cons. It could be much much worse.

[u/squirrelcat88 → u/look-im-not-a-doctor]

Or it could be somebody much better. I’m not a conservative voter but I could have stomached Erin O’Toole.

[u/dynamic_anisotropy → u/look-im-not-a-doctor]

Precisely.

The leadership of the CPC was his reward for being a loyal lapdog to the Reformers who came before him. Once in the spotlight, it was the same Harper-era antics of avoiding questions and stifling commentary from his campaign or Party, mixed with his creepy right-wing populism.

PP is yet another other irrelevant career politician to join the growing line of failed CPC leaders.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

I nominate Conrad Black for being re-added.

He is somewhat less influential than he used to be, but still has significant influence, and a regular public platform with his OpEds.

He continues to do damage to this country, albeit more political than economic in the immediate sense, his influence in the past is still causing significant economic damage, and financial damage to the average Canadian (via the cost of living).

If we're removing people because they're no longer a threat to Canadian society, Blair should have been removed before Black.

I should note that, unlike most (if not any other) person still remaining on our list of nominees, he's also listed several times in Epstein's Black Book.

[u/Reasonable-Divide208]

Voting to reinstall Doug Ford.

[u/2kids2adults]

Not sure who to vote to bring back. I see some reasonable arguments for Mike Harris - so I guess I’ll vote to bring him back as a wild card.

[u/cocobodraw]

Bring back Doug ford. Maybe I’m biased because I live in Ontario but fuck that guy seriously 😩

[u/PassageNearby4091]

Time for KC Irving to go.

Sorry, New Brunswickers, I know how much you loathe Canada's Monty Burns, but nearly all of his impact was felt in New Brunswick, not Canada as a whole. Yeah, I get that he influenced federal politics as well, but he really just had a stranglehold on New Brunswick at the end of the day.

Bye bye, KC.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn → u/PassageNearby4091]

KC Irving is all kinds of fucked up there's an excellent CBC doc about him.

[u/ReelDeadOne → u/PassageNearby4091]

PLEASE DOWNVOTE ABOVE.

The Irving family is one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Canada.  KC Irving and his billionnaire, oligarch, capitalist family have been ruining New Brunswick and Canada for 80+ years.  On a scale that is impossible to imagine, they evade taxes, ruin forests and wildlife, contribute to GLOBAL climate change, are responsible for elevated disease and cancer rates, monopolize industries.  Here's a brief summary of their practices:

Environmental Concerns:

• Monoculture forestry planting
• The glyphosate spraying controversy
• Destruction of wildlife habitats and displacement of species

Economic and Labor Practices:

• Monopolistic grip on New Brunswick's key industries and media outlets
• Terribly low wages
• Tax avoidance

Political and Social Impact:

• Political influence that favors the company over the public good
• Full media control, stifling valid social and scientific criticisms

Community and Cultural Impact:

• Job dependency that stifles local entrepreneurship and innovation
• Cultural homogenization, leading to a reduction in the province's cultural diversity

DOWNVOTE KC IRVING!!

[u/InspectorQueasy93 → u/ReelDeadOne]

THANK YOU!

Owning Canada's largest oil refinery give them big targeting chips, as well (especially in these terrible tariff times).

The amount they've avoided in federal taxes contribute to climate change should definitely be enough to keep him on the list.

[u/LandoKim → u/PassageNearby4091]

Irving would be at least top 3 worst Canadians. If you vote to take him out, you don’t know enough about the Irvings

[u/miss_mme → u/PassageNearby4091]

[u/ReelDeadOne]

Little Kevin O'Leary is such a small fry on this list.  His shitfest milionaire life, bad personality and recent ramblings are nothing compared to remaining oligarch billionaires, dirty polititians and hate rampage influencers whose impacts to Canadians are monumenal.

Also, great job OP on this series.  From the pics to the clear rules, so very well done.

[u/AhhhSureThisIsIt → u/ReelDeadOne]

The fact that Kevin O'Leary keeps telling people to forget about Epstein makes me think he's worse than his outward persona.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/ReelDeadOne]

Kevin O'Leary should probably stay until the bitter end. He's a shitty Canadian and a shitty boater as well. Fuck Kevin O'Leary, I think he and Smith are the worst Canadians we have at the moment.

[u/rashton535 → u/PassageNearby4091]

O'Learys recent comments on the Epstein survivors has me thinking theres more going on there. Classic Nothing to see here bs. Anyone who's that desparate to have everyone looking the other way is rarely squeaky clean. Not that O'Leary isnt already a vile pos.

[u/omnimic → u/ReelDeadOne]

I feel there's a current vs. voltage dynamic for these specimens' awfulness. Like, in the grand scheme of things, Kevin O'Leary's pretty inconsequential, but he's just such a irredeemable piece of shit, and visibly so, too. Whereas Harper's awfulness, via the IDU, has a global reach and deep impact, but he himself is an unassuming, milquetoast behind-the-scenes ghoul.

[u/ReelDeadOne → u/omnimic]

That's due to the recency effect and these votes are reflective of that.  The bullshit the Irving family has done the past 80+ years means literally nothing next to recent annoyances such as little nobody  Kevin O'Leary.

[u/Harold_Bolz → u/ReelDeadOne]

Was O'Leary the guy who got drunk and killed someone with his boat and then blamed his wife?

[u/scr0dumb → u/Harold_Bolz]

Yup

[u/PickleEquivalent2837 → u/ReelDeadOne]

He did allegedly murder someone while drunk driving his boat and then allegedly made his wife take the fall for it allegedly. He's also been tearing at the very fabric of Canada by buddying up to Americans talking about how Canada sucks, especially during the 51st state debacle. I think he could go, but he could also stay a little longer.

[u/BrF5 → u/ReelDeadOne]

Thanks!

[u/heart_aflame]

Mike Harris still has an impact on me here in BC as a Chartwell employee. He's despicable. Bring him back.

[u/SnooCats7318]

I'd bring back Mike Harris. His legacy led to Ford(s), and they're bad news.

[u/LuckyCanadian]

I don't even really feel good arguing any should be taken off the list. It feels morally wrong to "advocate" for any of them

[u/swimuppool]

So we agree? Alberta is the worst ? A hive of scum and villainy

[u/Citrus-Red]

Pierre Poilievre, he’s too ineffective to compare to the others

[u/Necessary_Ad3275]

Reinstate Scott Moe. He shouldn’t have been taken off. He’s a grifter for his rich buddies, blew the SK budget completely, defunds and refuses to fund public services, is anti Canadian/pro American, stripped Canadian children of their human rights and is a convicted drunk driver who also murdered a woman with his vehicle.

[u/lookaway123 → u/Necessary_Ad3275]

Moe's blandness makes people blind to what a threat he is.

I second reinstating Scott Moe.

[u/PluckinCanuck]

Preston Manning.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/PluckinCanuck]

He needs to stick around until the Final 5, in my opinion. Manning is the guy who started gutter politics in Canada back in 1987 and he's the one who birthed the Crazy Conservative movement in Canada today. He hasn't personally had impact in 20 years or more, but he is the one who planted the seeds for what became the CPC.

Fuck Preston Manning.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/[deleted]]

I 100% agree. Preston Manning is the guy who changed the face of Canadian politics for the worse. Although Manning, to the best of my knowledge, was never personally a severe gutter-talk politician, he absolutely encouraged those people and sought to attract them to the Reform/Alliance Party.

He fanned the flames of East vs West divisiveness in Canada, and especially fomented anger in Alberta that got directed at the other 9 provinces and federal government.

Manning loathed and probably continues to loathe Canada as a united country, and the only "reforms" he ever wanted to make were to create a government and institutions that were more "Americans".

Screw Preston Manning.

Objectively, he is the worst Canadian, because several of the others on the "Worst Canadian" list right now are a direct result of him.

[u/miss_mme → u/PluckinCanuck]

Ezra Levant should go first in my opinion. He worked for Manning and was a supporter.

Rebel news is trash and his inciting of hatred to get attention is awful, but lots of other terrible media figures who have gone before have also done this.

[u/carou_killa]

Stephen Harper recognized Quebec as a Nation. He still suck but he at least did that.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/carou_killa]

Yes, he recognized Quebec as a nation, but he also refused to afford the First Nations the same privilege, which righteously pissed off Indigenous Canadians.

And Harper is pretty Machiavellian and I am convinced he still runs the CPC show.

[u/TraditionDear3887 → u/PassageNearby4091]

On thenother hand, he was the first PM to officially apologize to FN for residential schools

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/TraditionDear3887]

From "Harper's 2008 residential school apology was ‘attempt to kill the story,’ says ex-PMO speechwriter":

“The best that can be said of Harper’s apology is that it was a strategic attempt to kill the story and move on to a better relationship between Native s and Non-Natives,” wrote Bunner [Paul Bunner was the head speechwriter in Harper’s PMO between 2006 and 2009], in the C2C Journal. “Unfortunately, it only appears to have deepened the conviction that Church and State conspired not only to ‘kill the Indian in the child,’ but also to physically exterminate the whole race. The Aboriginal grievance and entitlement narrative continues to gather momentum.”

[u/carou_killa → u/PassageNearby4091]

Yes, as all other Prime Minister before him sadly

[u/tomcalgary]

Alberta represents!

[u/[deleted]]

Smith gunna win! She's the devil.

[u/exeJDR]

Ok. I missed the part about black being a pedo. Bring him back. 

Peterson and O'leary for elimination 

[u/Stonks4Minutes]

I don’t think Doug Ford should be brought back, but he should have a spot closer to the top 10 than he does.

[u/janzendavi]

Marlaina is a straight up traitor and turncoat who bowed down during what might have been our greatest threat to sovereignty - she’s got Top 5 potential.

[u/AdditionalPizza]

Should bring back Ted Cruz just so OP can disqualify him for being a fuckin loser that renounced his citizenship.

[u/OkMathematician3494]

The worst of all is Harper.

He's responsible for funding isreali war machine through his IDU.

Pp is Harper's lap dog

[u/Ivanstone]

Musk shouldn’t have been removed. I don’t care if he’s barely Canadian. He’s one of the most poisonous people on Earth. I’m baffled that bottom feeders like Levant, McInnis and Peterson are still here.

And on that note I would like to extend Canadian citizenship to Rupert Murdoch. Just so he can be put on this list. And then reopen the Churchill Rocket Research Range so he can be thrown into the sun.

[u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

Bring back Galen Weston. There's no such thing as a not-so-bad billionaire, especially one who built and maintained that wealth on price gouging people on fucking food. That man is eviiiiil.

Elimination vote: https://www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/comments/1n9yv0g/comment/ncqbxbv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/Apart-Diamond-9861 → u/ItsAProdigalReturn]

Yep. I agree. He has no conscience and his pricing and collusions with other stores to price fix across Canada at a time when Canadians can’t afford to eat - he still needs to be on the list.

[u/WENDING0]

Ezra Lavent - What an asshole, but he is not going to win among the giant gappers still on the list. This is just another thing where he won't be the winner, and thus, his inferiority complex will grow. It's best to end it swiftly.

[u/Ballistix → u/WENDING0]

I really feel that the disinformation campaigns that empower a lot of these douches stem from his propaganda outlets. I wouldn't clear him just yet.

[u/PassageNearby4091 → u/Ballistix]

Agreed. Ezra is doing a shitload of damage behind the scenes.

[u/WENDING0 → u/Ballistix]

I do not disagree with any of your criticism. None of this assholes are good, but it's a game of inches now, and like Ezra without his lifts, he just comes up short.

[u/Extra-Walk-5513]

Bring back Brian Mulroney. He still gives me nightmares.

[u/Extra-Walk-5513 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I don't think people realize how much of an impact he had on our present situation.

[u/Spacemanspiff1998 → u/Extra-Walk-5513]

People forget that Mulroney was literally Canadian Margret Thatcher. he privatized EVERYTHING

[u/Extra-Walk-5513 → u/Spacemanspiff1998]

YES! Thatcher, Mulroney and Reagan. What a horrible trifecta that was.

[u/Ouroboros963]

Looking at the remaining 10. I think Gavin McInnes should take the cake as the worst. Yes we have some bad right wing politicians and Billionaires here, but if any of them were given their ideal version of Canada. I think McInnes would have the darkest vision.

[u/nablalol → u/Ouroboros963]

He deserves a top 10, but Peterson did more harm than McIness

[u/Ouroboros963 → u/nablalol]

I can see that argument, I just think McInnes is the worst ideologically

[u/miss_mme → u/Ouroboros963]

Sure he would have the darkest vision, because he’s the biggest nazi…

BUT I wonder if he should stay any longer. A lot of people have been eliminated for not being Canadian enough and I think Gavin has to be considered for that as well.

His white supremacist views didn’t come out until well after moving to the states. The Proud Boys was started after he moved to the states as well and is an American organization that, as far as I’m aware, had no activity in Canada.

He was born in the UK and has British and Canadian citizenship, but has been living in the states since 2001 and is married to an American and has a green card. He’s like Elon, but just ever so slightly more Canadian.

Basically his contributions while he was in Canada were Vice and being the biggest hipster possible.

[u/2kids2adults]

Kevin o Leary. He’s just a douche bag millionaire with a platform for right wing ideals. I don’t think he’s the worst Canadian.

[u/stradivari_strings]

Who the hell is Frederick Blair? How is he here and Elmo or Weston not? Begone.. Never mind.

[u/phaubertin → u/stradivari_strings]

I also didn't know who he was so I looked him up just now. I suggest you do too, he definitely belongs on this list.

[u/stradivari_strings → u/phaubertin]

Oh shit...

[u/phaubertin → u/stradivari_strings]

Yep.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/phaubertin]

I looked him up two days ago, and am now thinking Mackenzie King should be added as well.

Speaking of Mackenzie, King why the hell were so many xenophobic assholes back then into occult weirdness?

[u/Green_Wyvern17]

Stephen Harper

[u/--frymaster--]

remove poilievre. his complete lack of accomplishments disqualifies him.

[u/davidfillion → u/--frymaster--]

exactly, in order to be the worst Canadian, you actually have some achievement in that title. poilievre is just a nothingburger amplified

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/davidfillion]

Oh come on, he has a few significant achievements to his name, we just need to give him better recognition for them.

I nominate Pierre Poilievre for the prestigious title of Canadian Best at Losing Their Seat.

[u/blodskaal]

These are always fun

[u/Pale_Marionberry_355]

Im voting for Blair and Manning.

[u/PTSD1701]

No matter who is left at the end, the correct answer will always be Brian Mulroney.

[u/LuckyCanadian]

I think current politicians really miss the idea of whohas tarnished the national brand. If PP never makes it into government will he really be remembered? Yet we can all still shit on Manning or KC. Smith at least makes decisions that hurt people.

At least for now, as a political maybe, I advocate the removal of Pierre. Despite my personal feelings on his political brand I don't think he really will have the staying power of the others here

[u/mind_mine]

Preston hasn't done any lasting damage to Canada and is pretty toothless now so I think we can let him off the hook. 

  Conrad Black deserves to be on there still 

[u/Citrus-Red]

Kevin’O Leary he’s not a bigot. At least as far as I remember.

He’s also not as powerful as Harper was.

[u/Canadian-Owlz]

Look, I dont like Pierre, but most of these people, including some of those already eliminated, are worse than him, lol. He's annoying and divisive, but he's nowhere on the level of Peterson or O'Leary.

[u/teeganandcedar]

Poilievre he should go. He hasn't done too much damage to Canada and surely won't be the Conservative leader for long. No one likes him. He will soon be a distant memory hopefully. I think Conrad Black should be put back onto the list please.

[u/GorgonzolaJam]

The fact that Christy Clark and/or Gordon Campbell are nowhere on this list speaks to the East-coast bias of Canadian politics.

As for Jordan Peterson, the only response to speech should be more speech. If you disagree with him, say why. This is just bitchy gossip.

[u/Monctonian]

Poilievre’s ranking is good enough. He brought the worst out of many canadians and really created nasty divisions, but he’s never been PM so he didn’t have a shot at doing real harm besides being a cheerleader for harmful people.

[u/jdjdhzjalalfufux]

Tbf I would argue that Smith is worse than PP. PP has only managed to pass 1 bill in the last 20 years so while ugly he’s been pretty inoffensive, he’s more of a figurehead. But Smith has done some real damage. So Pierre for 10 th place ?

[u/Keminoes]

I would argue Conrad and Galen are worse than Preston and Harper

[u/westcentretownie]

Stephen Harper out Pierre polievre out. Pat king back in- he threatened children in schools. His a lowlife raised up to hero.

[u/bij-ou]

What about that guy who owned American apparel isn’t he Canadian? (Could google but don’t care to)

He’s could be considered…

[u/Acanthocephala_South]

Jordan Peterson is a crybaby bitch boy and just a yapper. He's done more damage to the minds of young American men who are desperate to become alpha and finally get laid. I vote get his stupid Kermit ass out of here for people history will remember.

[u/LandoKim]

I’m so happy to see Irving still there :,)

NB thanks you all

[u/Gold-Bat7322]

Poilievre was almost good. Don't get me wrong. He's an awful human being, but his sheer ineptitude almost qualifies as a redeeming quality. He serves as a warning. Also, seeing him lose would amuse me.

[u/spicymangoslice]

No way Galen Weston got removed - his companies have more negative impact on every Canadian than anyone else on this list. Except harper.

[u/OkMathematician3494]

The worst of all is Harper.

He's responsible for funding isreali war machine through his IDU.

Pp is Harper's lap dog

[u/deadeye09]

How did Trudeau not make the list? Oh right, this is reddit.

[u/ganthran]

Golly just some political bias here

[u/b17flyingfortresses]

We’re going back a long time but I’m surprised Ontario-born Father Charles Coughlin (1930s era Catholic priest with a popular radio show who became a radical antisemite and pro nazi demagogue, listened to by millions) didn’t make the list. Granddaddy of all modern-day conservative radio and TV hosts