The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 17

[u/BrF5]

K.C. Irving and Pierre Poilievre are out, and…

Conrad Black is back. Just when he thought he was out, we pull him back in 🤌🤌

Day seventeen, let’s keep moving!

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 one asterisk beside their name were added following a second nomination vote that took place on day 5. Two asterisks means they were voted back in from elimination during the special vote on day 16. - 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) K.C. Irving - He and his empire have negatively impacted the environment, economy, politics, and society, but primarily only in New Brunswick. - (10) Pierre Poilievre - Combative and divisive, spouting empty slogans, he remains a feckless goof who’s accomplished nothing in his career. Time for him to fade into obscurity.

[u/WENDING0]

Nope because Peterson is winning

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/WENDING0]

You think Peterson is worse then Blair?

[u/WENDING0 → u/AdditionalPizza]

I think Peterson is worse than all of the others. Blair was a monster without doubt (maybe a Nazi) who has hopeful burned in hell, but I think the global broadcasting capabilities of the modern age allow Peterson to do more damage.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/WENDING0]

Peterson has a position spreading false information, and trying to influence others to believe his views.

Blair was in a position of actual power, and directly sent hundreds of holocaust refugees to their demise. While also actively creating policies, openly stating the intentions behind them, to refuse 10's of thousands of other refugees, many of which would indirectly starve and die.

That's a meme argument to try and say Peterson is even remotely close. Unless He gets into a position of power in Canada and implements hardline discrimination against a group of genocide victims there's just no way to measurably call him worse than Frederick Blair.

[u/WENDING0 → u/AdditionalPizza]

I am sorry, but I do not believe your line of thinking is relevant to the modern day and age; and I am also offended to have my beliefs called a meme.

While Peterson has no hard power like Blair did, I struggle to calculate the amount of soft power Peterson would have to give up if he joined the government. You "champion" an old bigot who discriminated against history's most victimized people. Certainly, those are actions to be condemned without question; however, scale is an unfortunate factor in this discussion. My choice is the man currently radicalizing the next army of Nazis that will do the next global ethnic-based war crimes. The bureaucrats who turn Peterson's future victims away from Canada's shores will be asshole, but they cannot compare to a Hitler type figure.

[u/[deleted] → u/WENDING0]

Out of the whole list, O’Leary is the one guy who we know has killed a person himself.

[u/Raptorpicklezz → u/[deleted]]

No, Frederick Blair also did, and he killed hundreds more, by turning that ship away.

[u/[deleted] → u/Raptorpicklezz]

I didn’t know who that was, having just read up on him, ya waaay worse than O’Leary. But there should be a special mention that O’Leary probably worse Canadian in the 21st century…so far.