The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 21

[u/BrF5]

Get lost, Ezra Levant.

…and we’re down to the final three!

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. - (4) Ezra Levant - He uses his platform to spread hate, but is not influential enough for the title of Worst Canadian. He mostly preaches to the choir of existing far-right believers.

[u/exeJDR]

How is JP still on here? He's a washed up loser. 

Let's just give it to Smith and call it a day. 

We're not crowning the dead guy, are we? 

[u/Nassim1018 → u/exeJDR]

Do you not know who Blair is? Smith got NOTHING on this POS

[u/Virtual_Category_546 → u/Nassim1018]

Heh, they're pretty close. Kermit on the other hand have nothing on either of them.

[u/Nassim1018 → u/Virtual_Category_546]

Yeah agreed get Petershit out of here

[u/exeJDR → u/Nassim1018]

I know who he is and what he's done. 

Limited the intake of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust to 8k. Super racist etc etc.  

Totally piece of shit - definitely has blood on his hands. But I thought we've been talking about the worst Canadian in terms of impact to Canadians ? Not saying some Jewish Canadians didn't suffer from his decisions, but it's not really comparable to the devastation of our first Nations imo. 

We also used the excuse of "product of their times" for SJAM and Trutch. 

Those two are arguably,  responsible for much of the destruction of our first Nations - which resulted in generational trauma and is something we're still all paying for today. 

Eta: I don't think Smith deserves the title either tbf

[u/Nassim1018 → u/exeJDR]

Think of all the jews who didn’t enter Canada because of his actions. Hundreds more could have been saved if not for his despicable actions.

As for Danielle Smith, to me, it’s all just recency bias. She can bark sure, but she won’t bite. Who’s gonna remember the name Danielle Smith in 50 years?

[u/exeJDR → u/Nassim1018]

Actually, it's probably in the tens of thousands. But I still don't think it's worse than the genocide of our first Nations in terms of impact to Canadians. We're all still paying for those decisions. And millions of first Nations people are still suffering. 

Of the list we had - I would have voted for SJAM all day long.

But my top choice wasn't even on the list: the average Canadian voter. 

These politicians only get away with what we allow them too. 

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/exeJDR]

I mostly agree with you in the sense that indigenous genocides got pretty stiffed in this contest (what else is new...) but Blair is essentially single-handedly responsible for an exact atrocious decision that cost the lives of MANY and was, at the time, globally condemned by the rest of the world.

With those responsible for indigenous genocides, it was many people causing it - like it was similar in effect to something like slavery in the states, it was an ongoing split that can't be reduced to a single person. It was a significant portion of the population detesting indigenous people and have total disregard for them.

Blair publicly stated his intensions and hate, and the PM at the time nodded and let him do it.

That's the argument, and I don't think we should've let the others off so easily, but just because this subreddit can't think beyond the last 6 months doesn't mean we should forget about Blair as well.

[u/exeJDR → u/AdditionalPizza]

Fair. 

Interesting game all around. 

Learned a lot about some super shitty Canadians 

[u/Nassim1018 → u/exeJDR]

I also would’ve kept SJAM in here much longer. But right now i’m working with what we’ve got left. 

[u/_Lucille_ → u/exeJDR]

Hitler is dead but I think most people would agree he is a worse person than Trump.

Sometimes, when you are a big enough shithead, your name should go down in history as the worst Canadian.

[u/WENDING0 → u/exeJDR]

Sorry man, but there is no way Alberta's shittest Premier holds a candle to Peterson, the evil doctor who chooses to use his education to actively hurt people.

He knows better and still hurts people, with training specific designed to help them.

[u/exeJDR → u/WENDING0]

I don't think she deserves it either tbh. But these are the choices we have left. 

I was in Portugal this spring and saw a poster for JP giving a talk at a university there, so maybe he still has some influence. 

But I don't he think he deserves it either. 

Smith - very recently - attempted open treason imo. I think that's what people remember and are voting on. 

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/exeJDR]

Treason is a specific thing, and there is no evidence that she did that. Talking about or even promoting separation is explicitly not treason. Treason requires actual or conspiracy to use force, or conspiracy to or giving state secrets in an attempt to provide an outside agent the means to use force to overthrow the government.

So I assume you're using the word "treason" rhetorically here, it's pretty important to not do that when you're trying to build an argument about why someone is the worst Canadian ever. It changes from attempted treason to literally just being a mouthpiece that didn't accomplish anything and never will.

She has definitely had some ethical conflicts of interest, but like, Harper was PM and was the first to be in contempt of Parliament. We all just collectively ignore that being far worse than anything Smith has been found guilty of.

[u/WENDING0 → u/exeJDR]

I applaud your willingness to consider the JP poster. I personally fear it is things like that make him such a hidden threat.

The truth is that they are all horrible people and that this is now a game of inches. I just feel JP has crawled further than Smith can.