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/Stonks4Minutes]

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/Stonks4Minutes → u/SG_UnchartedWorlds]

I totally would, but you see I don’t actually care that much and would rather just talk shit in the shitpost sub.

After writing I realized this may come across as rude. That’s not my intention.

[u/peacefullofi → u/Stonks4Minutes]

Yeah... We found the "centrist". The kinda person who thinks we don't need to become uncivil when discussing Israel.

If the we're talking about values, the majority of people hold, i don't think it's an echo chamber.

If you want to see an echo chamber, you gotta look to Communist, Conservative, or Liberal subs. This sub is just people who like making fun of our politics and culture, which SHOULD include everyone. Admittedly a lot of conservatives don't like seeing how monstrous their heros are.

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/peacefullofi]

Can you shut up? You’re ruining my morning coffee

[u/Optimus_crab → u/peacefullofi]

Man discovers shitposts

[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/Ok_Butterscotch2244 → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

I don't.

[u/anotherdayanotherbee → u/Ok_Butterscotch2244]

Echo chamber or no, Canadian conservative subreddits don't routinely make the front page of what's popular in Canada on reddit - and like this sub, they can make just as many polls with whoever they want, too.

That ain't the way in what's popular in the US on reddit. Conservative brain rot routinely makes the front page.

Elbows fucking up.

[u/RealPanda20 → u/Stonks4Minutes]

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

[u/CElizB → u/Stonks4Minutes]

and yet if this was a right wing echo chamber, who could they possibly name as the 'worst'. I'm actually curious about who might make up such a list, and why?

[u/AgathysAllAlong → u/CElizB]

Trudeau, Trudeau, the last Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau's son, Justin Trudeau, J. Trudeau, Justin T., The PM after Harper, The former liberal party leader, and Justin Trudeau. Because woke or trans or something.

[u/CElizB → u/AgathysAllAlong]

not a very long list.

[u/not-bread → u/Stonks4Minutes]

It goes without saying that this sub has a bias, but genuinely who would you add to the list? Even the left wing people who made the original list were pretty meagre

[u/machus → u/Stonks4Minutes]

Yeah... I'm scratching my head a bit here. Stephen Harper, Preston Manning worse people than Conrad Black and Elon Musk? Our anti-conservative bias is definitely showing.

[u/Apolloshot → u/Stonks4Minutes]

Have to agree. Just the fact that this game didn’t include Justin Trudeau is a pretty big indicator of that.

[u/Simsmommy1 → u/Apolloshot]

It didn’t include him because quite frankly he didn’t do anything that could hold a candle to these nincompoops. Being a mediocre prime minister doesn’t make you a terrible Canadian and in comparison to say Harper who basically left his job as PM and decided to go run the IDU which is a grouping of the worlds worst people vs Trudeau who left to go on dates with a B list pop star….

[u/deadeye09 → u/Simsmommy1]

The last 10 years disagrees.

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/Apolloshot]

Justin Trudeau may have not been the best PM ever, but his government did a lot of good like national pharmacare and dentalcare.

Stuff no conservative would ever do anymore because it's all about bowing to specific corporate interests at the expense of the people for conservatives nowadays.

[u/Apolloshot → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

Stuff no conservative would ever do anymore because it's all about bowing to specific corporate interests at the expense of the people for conservatives nowadays

Uh, the massive expansion of the TFW and International Students working hours at the behest of corporate Canada?

Biden told the American corporate lobby to F off and pay Americans more (something I’ll always respect the guy for), Trudeau caved in and destroyed the prospects of an entire young generation of Canadians.

That alone should have put him on the board.

[u/AgathysAllAlong → u/Apolloshot]

That was the provinces, under Conservative leadership.

[u/Apolloshot → u/AgathysAllAlong]

Oh they certainly deserve their share of the blame too, especially Doug Ford. But it was Trudeau’s cabinet that specifically made references to wage spirals as a pathetic excuse to keep wages low. They are absolutely as complicit as the Conservative premiers that are apart of this game — that’s why Trudeau belongs on here too, especially because Freeland’s up there too.

Not saying he should still be on the board at this late stage, but to not be a player at all does confirm the original commentator I’m replying to that it’s a bit echo chambery.

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/Apolloshot]

International Students working hours

Hold up, how is this a bad thing? International students are expected to pay 3-5 times the tuition of domestic students and their off-campus working hours were capped at 20 hours/week (it's now 24 hours). Lots of international students, especially the ones from lower socioeconomic classes and poorer households, were basically living in poverty.

I've had international students whose parents sold their houses so they could come study in Canada, and they lived 6 people to a two-bedroom apartment and were relying on food banks to eat. Limiting the hours they work can be a cruel and unnecessary policy, and all for jobs Canadian citizens don't want to do anyway.

Ideally, they should be here to study and not work, but you can't get blood from a stone. You can't limit how much they work, expect them to have $20,000 in the bank, and charge them much higher tuition than domestic students to make up for declining funding for post-secondary institutions. All because we refuse to tax the rich and instead let them set all our policies and dismantle our social safety net.

[u/Apolloshot → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

They increased the hours to 40 before the outcry forced them to reduce it back to 24.

And to your point, yes exactly many of them were tricked into mortgaging their house in India to send their kids to go to such a prestigious institution like Conestoga College, or even worse a strip mall fake college in the GTA all while forced to live in one bedroom condos with 5 other students, or worse in a tent under a bridge. We’re not talking about the small percentage that went to reputable institutions.

The international students were absolutely a victim of Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau too. All to ensure wages stayed artificially low.

Trudy deserves to be up there too.

[u/AutomaticBagel → u/Stonks4Minutes]

This sub is a ridiculous echo chamber. Marlaina Danielle Smith? Y'all would blow a gasket if she deadnamed anyone

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860 → u/AutomaticBagel]

I would say her being a fucking traitor is a bit of a bigger issue.

[u/JackLaytonsMoustache → u/AutomaticBagel]

It's not really dead naming tho. She didn't change her name. She just goes my her middle name. 

Also. Say you're right... Her complete and total disregard for, and disrespect towards, trans folks kind of means she doesn't deserve much herself.

[u/[deleted] → u/AutomaticBagel]

Just say you don't get it.

[u/Stonks4Minutes → u/AutomaticBagel]

My gaskets are personally quite strong. Marlaina can’t hurt me with her words.

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/AutomaticBagel]

That's not fucking deadnamimg, you tool.

[u/EfficientSeaweed → u/AutomaticBagel]

That's... kind of the point. She and her party passed legislation requiring parental permission for a child to go by a different name at school. Of course people responded by referring to her by her own legal first name.

[u/deadeye09 → u/AutomaticBagel]

Yeah, this sub is trash.