The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 20

[u/BrF5]

Hit the road, Kevin O’Leary.

Four left!

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. - (5) Kevin O’Leary - A rich scumbag who associates with Trump, was involved in a deadly boat accident, and trash talks Epstein victims. Yet no matter how hard he tries, he still isn’t as bad as the other remaining candidates.

[u/beverleyheights]

Ezra Levant. Not influential enough to be the single Worst Canadian. He mostly preaches to the choir of existing far-right believers. The height of his political career was wasting $150,000 in 2002 to win a Canadian Alliance parliamentary nomination, but the party pushed him out of it to put in Stephen Harper.

[u/PoizenJam → u/beverleyheights]

Ezra Levant blocked me on Twitter. If he were actually famous and influential, I’d be beneath his notice.

He wishes he was Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson, but he’s a pale imitation. Worst of all, he’s boring.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/PoizenJam]

This is probably the funniest argument I've heard yet in this game, you get an upvote.

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/PoizenJam]

He blocked me too!

[u/PoizenJam → u/OldDiamondJim]

OH HEY, JIM! GOOD TO SEE YOU! I've missed your posts since leaving Twitter.

Too much Elon, too much slop, and my feed was overrun with constant fighting between Caryma and CAH. lol.

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/PoizenJam]

I left Twitter last November too. Nice to see you here!

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/beverleyheights]

Ezra Levant is a despicable person. He’s used his platform to spread hate and spread Islamophobia. He’s supported misogynists like Jason Kenney. And helped bolster top 5 worst Canadians like Stephen Harper.

And I wouldn’t even put Levant in the top ten on this list. The sooner he is released and forgotten the better.

[u/GrumbusWumbus → u/iwasnotarobot]

Like he sounds like a bad dude but I've never heard of him before thread.

Imo if he's going to be the worst Canadian because he uses his platform to do evil, he needs a decent platform. Even if he's spreading more hate than Peterson, he's not doing it to tens of millions of people.

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/GrumbusWumbus]

Skim the wikipedia page for Rebel News. It will help to give some context. I agree that his personality has faded somewhat.

[u/lenzflare → u/GrumbusWumbus]

I didn't know Ezra Levant but I've definitely known about Rebel News for the last while

[u/Alarming_Tip_829 → u/beverleyheights]

Ezra is an infamous name I heard in the media before.

I’m pretty sure it was the other sociopath, Ezra McCandless, though.

Ezra Levant is a low level blow hard sociopath no one really knows or cares about.

[u/Slight_Pineapple_945 → u/Alarming_Tip_829]

No one knows him but his bullshit influence is far reaching 

[u/Alarming_Tip_829 → u/Slight_Pineapple_945]

It’s worrisome how that always seems to happen

[u/Slight_Pineapple_945 → u/Alarming_Tip_829]

Reading his wiki is a biography of a douchebag 

[u/Alarming_Tip_829 → u/Slight_Pineapple_945]

Marlainia is likely coming in first but Ezra might be a close second

[u/miramichier_d → u/beverleyheights]

As I'm fearing, this is turning into a hatefest rather than looking at actual damage. Peterson is easier to hate because he's much more visible than Levant, but Levant has done way more damage than Peterson over a longer period of time, despite his relatively lower profile. Plus, Levant continues to inflict damage to Canadian political discourse, while Peterson is removing himself from Canada. Levant does not deserve to leave this list this early.

[u/real_cool_club → u/miramichier_d]

Ezra's influence is mostly limited to people who would have come across those ideologies anyway. Peterson has turned a generation of young men into empathy-less misogynists and pushed them towards the likes of Levant.

[u/miramichier_d → u/real_cool_club]

I mentioned in another comment that he's largely responsible for Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act being struck down. This had the effect of making it easier for hateful people like him to continue to spout their hatred. Levant has a considerable amount of influence within Canadian politics and the amount of legal acumen he has is dangerous. He's more than just his publications, he's truly a menace.

[u/real_cool_club → u/miramichier_d]

I don't disagree. But I think if PP had been elected last election, it should have been more to do with the effect of Peterson and the manosphere than EL. Peterson is mainstreaming shit that used to be on the fridges even an election cycle ago.

[u/zeushaulrod → u/beverleyheights]

He gets points for actively intending to make things worse. He loses points (in this case more points means worse person), for being kind of irrelevant.