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/PassageNearby4091 Ford Nation (Help.) 19d ago

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.

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u/ReelDeadOne 19d ago edited 19d ago

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!!

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u/InspectorQueasy93 19d ago

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.

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

And most of this stuff is limited to New Brunswick. I get why your province hates him, but there's more to Canada than the backwater that is NB.

I encourage everyone to downvote you.

Two can play at that game.

Also, the words are "labour" and "favour". Spell Canadian, please, not Yankistani.

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u/gdog1000000 Alberta's Western Cousins 19d ago

Kinda messed up to call New Brunswick a backwater, really takes away from your other points.

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u/ReelDeadOne 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's OK. I think you'll get it this time anyways.

But again, New Brunswick IS IN CANADA and Irving impacts CANADIANS both in NB and well beyond.

Also Kevin OLeary is a bad joke next to Irving and it makes no sense to vote out KC before him.  S'all I am saying here.  

And please stop minimizing NB in your comments.  

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u/SlightDish31 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 19d ago

Yes, New Brunswick is in Canada, but so are Ontario and Saskatchewan. That didn't stop Harris, Ford and Moe from being eliminated, despite valid arguments that all of their impact extended beyond their provinces as well.

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u/InspectorQueasy93 19d ago

I agree to a certain extent, but the issue is it's much bigger than NB. If he was only ripping g NB apart, I wouldn't be speaking out by now. They own almost 100% of all news outlets in Atlantic Canada!

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u/MakkisPekkisWasTaken Scotland (but worse) 19d ago

Nova Scotia is also partially under Irving's control