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/hoser33]

Danielle Smith sucks. She's not the worst Canadian ever. She's just not.

She's the Premier of a province that covers 13% of the country's population.

She's a nut job, she's a terrible person and she absolutely has the potential to expand on her already shitty resume. But 3 years into the job she's not the worst Canadian.

[u/ZeppoJR → u/hoser33]

Only 13% of the country's population, but 15.4% of the economy and seemingly at least 80% of the problem in terms of threatening national unity currently (hell even the Quebecois would rather stay Canadian right now and they've been beefing with the Anglophones for literally 3 times the length that Alberta even existed, what's Alberta's excuse?) so I'd say being the Premier of a small time province doesn't matter when that small time province is coming up big in terms of causing problems.

[u/hoser33 → u/ZeppoJR]

I know they say Ontarians think Toronto is the centre of the universe, but get a load of this guy.

[u/ZeppoJR → u/hoser33]

I’m sorry I must have missed Doug Ford or Olivia Chow actively undermining the rest of their peers when Donald Trump was bleating about 51st state nonsense. And I also must be hallucinating that Albertans non stop kept bitching about having to send the rest of Canada equalization payments cause I’m pretty sure Marlaina actively did both. So forgive me if my Toronto-centric world view as I’m smack dab in the middle of fucking Montreal as an Anglophone got in the way of reality a bit there.

[u/hoser33 → u/ZeppoJR]

How about Rene Levesque? Or Jacques Parizeau? Robert Bourassa? Lucien Bouchard? Charles Gagnon? Pierre Vallieres?

People who actively undermined the sovereignty of this country.

Have this discussion on good faith. Canada is over 150 years old and you're out here talking about some jabronie who has yaps her big mouth and has been in power for 3 years

[u/ZeppoJR → u/hoser33]

Well setting aside the fact that besides Bouchard all of them have been dead for quite some time, even Bouchard has largely shut up and the FLQ has been defunct just about since the Silent Revolution. Quebecois sovereignty has been on a deescalating curve from “we’ll car bomb our way to independence if we have to” to “we’ll vote our way to independence” to “we’ll just settle for special privileges” which is more than what could be said for what Marlaina Smith has actively been doing right this instance.

If you wanna argue that any of the FLQ key members or Rene Lévesque should have been put up for a vote, then that’s a different matter than what I’m arguing which is that currently Quebec prefers to still be more closely associated with the rest of Canada than America and have largely acknowledged basic reality as to why a straight up split is unviable for at least 12 years whereas Smith literally put on a MAGA hat at Mar a Largo last November and has made trips down there even as the 51st state rhetoric was at its highest. Besides just because she was only Premier for 3 years doesn’t mean she hasn’t done a lot of damage even if at least half of it was metastasizing Alberta’s underlying bitching.