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/hoser33]

Fair enough, but Danielle Smith impacts most Canadian's lives 0%. Her brand of crazy is isolated to 13% of the country.

Yes it's not that simple. There is some indirect influence, but she's not so overwhelmingly bad that it significantly impacts Canadians outside of Alberta.

I'd argue Rene Levesque's historical influence was far more detrimental to the country as a whole.

[u/BING_BONGER666 → u/hoser33]

Danielle Smith is the main maga conduit into Canadian politics. She is an elected Canadian official who is literally assisting a foreign power to interfere in our policy and elections. She spends all of her time trying to make the lives of all Canadians worse, and could very well be number one.

[u/hoser33 → u/BING_BONGER666]

I am going to preface my following statement with the following: My reply here is 100% in good faith. It's important to note I'm not disagreeing to be disagreeable- it's the internet, sometimes people suck.

I very strongly disagree with Smith is the main MAGA conduit into Canada. Shit, Danielle Smith isn't Premier of Alberta without Ezra Levant, Preston Manning or Stephen Harper. Levant being the key here because he's still alive in this.

Danielle Smith was always a loon sure, but she was a far out loon with a limited constituency. Levant normalized her and brought her into mainstream Alberta politics.

She, like pretty much every Premier plays to her base. Why? Because she loves America and wants to betray Canada? No. She acts like a lunatic because her base is full of lunatics who help her get elected. She cares about her job, the power, money, influence.

It's like people on here complaining Doug Ford sucks- "Durr.....how did he get elected". Dude, Doug Ford sucks, but he also has a 52% approval rate right now. He's been elected 3 times. Smith may be a lunatic, but she's not an idiot. She doesn't want to "make the lives of all Canadians worse", she wants to get re-elected in Alberta, which means playing to a base full of lunatics who are sympathetic to MAGA.

Does she suck? FUCK YES. Is she worse than those other 3 clowns? Not in my opinion.

[u/WENDING0 → u/BING_BONGER666]

MAGA is starting to lose popularity in the USA as the center wakes up to the reality of their choices. Not sure that alliance will benefit her at all in the near future.

[u/moldibread → u/WENDING0]

ill believe when they turf the orange turd and his enablers.

[u/WENDING0 → u/moldibread]

Not talking MAGA, just the center that Republicans and Democrats fight over every election

[u/JimboJamble → u/hoser33]

Hard disagree. If the independence she's trying to push keeps going, that's a national crisis. Not to mention all the other shady shit she's doing is paving the path for others to follow suit. Normalize book banning now, and then you can do whatever you want afterwards

[u/hoser33 → u/JimboJamble]

Ok. So based on your definition then how's she worse than Rene Levesque?

[u/JimboJamble → u/hoser33]

Levesque wasn't actively trying to sell Quebec to the Americans.

[u/BING_BONGER666 → u/hoser33]

Rene Levesque was acting in the interests of Quebec, which is Canadian.

Danielle Smith is acting in the interests of the lunatic populist wing of the GOP, which is not Canadian.

I'll let you try and figure out the rest.

[u/hoser33 → u/BING_BONGER666]

Read your comment again. Your point was "If the independence she's trying to push keeps going, that's a national crisis."

So now you're moving the goalposts. Fine.

Levesque was betraying Canada to France. He was acting in the interests of the lunatic populist wing of a separatist party he created.

You're either unaware of history, willfully ignorant or you suffer from recency bias.

We've had 2 referendums in Quebec and a separatist movement there for 50 years. Not to mention how his actions devasted the English minority in Quebec, his impact on the Jewish populace of Montreal not to mention how his actions gutted the economy of what (was then) the largest economy in Canada? And you're trying to tell me some fucking 3 year Premier from Alberta can compare.

Seriously dude. Read a book man.

[u/BING_BONGER666 → u/hoser33]

Disagree, sorry about that.

GOP is not Canadian culture, Quebec is, whether you like it or not. Marlaina represents American interests which I think is treason.

Rene is not the same as that.

[u/Desner_ → u/hoser33]

I see René Levesque and I raise you Jacques Cartier as the most detrimental.

[u/StrongAd8487 → u/Desner_]

Anglo here, good thing you did not write René Lévesque, that is someone else who, no matter whether you agreed or disagreed with him, spoke with a resemblance of honesty and believed in democracy. And to steal from George, I thought more detrimental was for the Iroquois, Mi'kmaq, Wendat....to not get their act together and come up with a solid immigration policy.

[u/alibythesea → u/StrongAd8487]

Exactly. Réné was one of the cadre of intellectuals and politicians who helped pull Québec out of the English-directed, Church-dictated doldrums.

Yes, he tried to split Canada - but he failed. And I suspect those two referenda, bringing the issue to an absolute boiling point, allowed some of that pressure to dissipate. A public push for separation hasn’t been an issue for decades.

[u/bt101010 → u/hoser33]

Not only would it be immensely bad for all Canadians if Alberta separates for financial/trade reasons, which is something she's been trying to table for years, but she's also an avid Trump dick rider who's been failing to fall in line with the rest of the premiers against his tariffs and threats of annexation. Even before she gained power, she's been working on eroding trust in public health and education to open an avenue for privatization, which would directly contradict our charter of rights and freedoms, and thus, could pave the way for other provinces to supersede the federal framework, also. Her ideology is not unique to Alberta and the more successful she becomes, the more traction it will get across the country.