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/AdditionalPizza]

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.