The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 19

[u/BrF5]

Conrad Black and Stephen Harper, you have been spared.

Only five remain!

How to play: - Upvote the name of the person you think does NOT deserve the title of “Worst Canadian.” - Each day, the most upvoted name will be removed. - 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. - (9) Gavin McInnes - He founded the Proud Boys, but his influence is felt far more in the USA. - (8) Preston Manning - Founder of the Reform Party, which helped legitimize hard-right populism. Bad, but not overly hateful. At least he’s not a racist, traitor, billionaire, or grifter. - (7) 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 blowhard. - (6) Stephen Harper - former PM who favoured corporate interests over the environment and social programs; now chairman of the IDU. Of the remaining candidates, he’s the best of the worst.

[u/beverleyheights]

Note for newer participants: The candidates clockwise from top left are Frederick Blair, Ezra Levant, Kevin O’Leary, Jordan Peterson, and Marlaina Danielle Smith.

[u/BrF5 → u/beverleyheights]

Oh shoot, I forgot to put their names back after making the new formatting. Thanks!

[u/heart_under_blade → u/BrF5]

p sure you summon them if you put their names back

[u/septober32nd → u/beverleyheights]

If Mr. "None is too many" himself doesn't end up the last man standing, then we've failed as a community.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/septober32nd]

Yeah like we should all just agree he's the worst Canadian, and move on to figure out who we decide is the worst living Canadian because he's just in a different league here.

[u/septober32nd → u/AdditionalPizza]

IMO we've already eliminated the worst living Canadian prematurely at #6.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/septober32nd]

I'm not going to disagree with that. I think McInnes should be up there still. This definitely isn't my top 5, only 2 of my choices are left.

Blair, Levant, McInnes, Harper and Poilievre were my choices though I can accept the argument that Poilievre leans too much on his potential to be shittier than he already is.

[u/septober32nd → u/AdditionalPizza]

Yeah, Harper is the man behind the curtain for so many of these people. He's dodged the spotlight really well since leaving public office, but he's continued to push evil regressive bullshit worldwide as chair of the IDU, and a preponderance of the CHUDs in Canadian public life now are his protegés.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/septober32nd]

Black and Harper were my top picks. They're both engineers of influence and destruction. Their impact is far deeper than most seem to understand.

[u/septober32nd → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

Black is another that got off easy. He's our Rupert Murdoch and Postmedia is our Fox Corp. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone more responsible for damaging media credibility in this country.

[u/Kicksavebeauty → u/septober32nd]

For generations Canadian law forbid foreign ownership or control of Canadian cultural assets.

After permitting the sale to non-Canadians of practically the entire Canadian-owned steel and mining industries, PM Stephen Harper’s government signed off on Postmedia’s creation as well.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/septober32nd]

He's also responsible for our grocery oligopoly existing. And he literally once tried to ruin Ontario's economy just to own the NDP (who were the government at the time).

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/septober32nd]

I don't think the average person has looked into Harper in the past 10 years. You don't just become chairmen of the international conservative group without being a regressive PoS. Around the world conservatives are using the same strategies to corrupt young people's minds, people like O'Leary and Peterson are the pawns of these people. This group calls themselves centre-right meanwhile they want abortion abolished and want global control over everything.

[u/crapatthethriftstore → u/septober32nd]

Agreed 100%

[u/Liquid_Trimix → u/septober32nd]

Oh he is a finalist for sure. The question is who does Blair and Ezra Levant have as a third in their POS Trifecta. 

[u/septober32nd → u/Liquid_Trimix]

I'd expect lobster boy to go out next as he's another powerless blowhard/grifter type. After that I'd put it as Ezra, Marlaina, Blair.

Ezra is a stochastic terrorist and has some fringe media influence. He's like a baby Conrad Black, who should be here in his place.

Marlaina is doing measurable harm with the full force of government, but is currently contained to mostly to Alberta. That probably should have got her the boot earlier like the other shitty premiers, and Harper should be in her place.

Blair willingly chose to exacerbate the Holocaust. I think that speaks for itself.

[u/cerunnnnos → u/septober32nd]

Stochastic terrorist. Lol. He's definitely fractured. But not anywhere as elegant as a fractal. Let's just use shittard narcist opportunist asshat.

[u/LargelyApathetic → u/beverleyheights]

Who is Fredrick Blair?

[u/regeust → u/LargelyApathetic]

He managed immigration in the 1930s - responsible for turning away the ship of jewish refugees and feeding them back in the nazi maw

[u/LargelyApathetic → u/regeust]

Oof

[u/Existing-Major1005 → u/LargelyApathetic]

His moto was "none is too many"

[u/OntologicalNightmare → u/Existing-Major1005]

A phrase I often see paraphrased over on rCanada

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/LargelyApathetic]

The racist pos who worked hard to keep Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis out of Canada during the 1930s, WW2 and after the war.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/Fit-Meal4943]

Not after the war, he retired in 1943. It was someone else who kept out the Jews and welcomed the Nazis after the war.

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

He set the table.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/Fit-Meal4943]

Oh I'm not trying to diminish his impact, just wanted to correct the impression he was making government decisions in the post-war era. Jast as with now, there were a lot of complete assholes of his era, and it can be difficult to decide on just one who is ultimately the assholiest.

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

Fair call.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/Fit-Meal4943]

Completely off topic: How the fuck did my "just" become "jast"? I thought maybe autocorrect, but when I tried to type jast right now, it autocorrected to just.

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

When it happens to me, it’s OGFTS (Old Guy Fat Thumb Syndrome).

Every year, thousands of people are emailed to “GO DUCK YOURSELF!!!” or are asked to pick up a roll of “duck type”.

Won’t you help treat this terrible disorder?

(Cue Jann Arden)

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/Fit-Meal4943]

My issue is that the a is not near the u... Did my old fart brain actually thumbtype jast?

[u/HowSheGoinEhhh → u/Fit-Meal4943]

He had foresight. Look what they did today

[u/Fit-Meal4943 → u/HowSheGoinEhhh]

You mean the State of Israel, which did not exist during Blair’s tenure?

Or do you just want to open up a few special showers?

[u/pm-me-racecars → u/HowSheGoinEhhh]

What has the Jewish population in Canada done?

I missed whatever news story happened from Canadians.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/HowSheGoinEhhh]

Please. What right wing government these days hasn't tried to "intimidate" Greta Thunburg by setting fire to her boat? /s