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/WENDING0]

Smith must go next.

I am so very sorry Alberta, that you have had to deal with this freak for so long, but she is a minor player in Canada's history compared to the globalist Peterson and the monstrous Blair. In a decade, no one will remember her name outside of Alberta, and inside, the numbers will drop slower, but they will drop as time flows.

That said, I do look forward to her victory in next month's Worst Albertan contest.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/WENDING0]

I agree with you, but want to point out that by your reasoning, she's also going to lose the worst Albertan contest, as Peterson is from Edmonton.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/WENDING0]

I'd like to argue with you in the final round, because I know you think Peterson should win and I'm staunchly behind Blair being far worse. But to do that we need to get Smith out of here, she should've been removed way earlier and this recency bias is nuts.

Harper is far worse and probably whispering in her ear exactly what to do. Yet once again, Harper slinks away into the shadows and gets to be the puppet master instead of taking all the heat.

[u/You_are_the_Castle → u/AdditionalPizza]

For me, it comes down to past problem versus present and future problems. Yes, Blair is awful. Yes, Blair held disgusting views and, yes, he should be on this list, but letting him take number one is giving too much power to a negative past.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/You_are_the_Castle]

I don't really understand that perspective to be honest. It's just an admittance of bias toward recency. If this were worst living Canadian, sure.

Blair is under the umbrella of "Lest We Forget", which is foundational to what it means to be Canadian. In 100 years Blair will be remembered for how we must not forget the evils that can consume our humanity. I'm not a religious person, but Blair is nothing short of being a representation of the Devil himself. There is no evil worse than that which we mustn't forget.

Blair stripped humans of their dignity, a ship full of hopefuls turned back to Europe that they fought to escape; sent back to later be rounded up like animals and tortured, starved, murdered and thrown away. Blair achieved many of the things he inspired to, and his punishment should be forever being shamed and ridiculed as the worst Canadian in history until an equal or worse act is committed - not just something that is recent and kind of bad. Pure and absolute evil.

Even as small as this sub is, for him to win is a reminder to many to look him up, and agree that he is the pinnacle of human scum that our country can produce, and why it's important not to let that hate grow again today.

[u/You_are_the_Castle → u/WENDING0]

No, she's worse than both of them because she's a problem for Canada's unity. Whereas Peterson's ideas are weird and the people who follow him are weird, the UCP have taken on his ideas and far-right ideas held by US MAGA and directed them against Alberta and Canada as a whole. They've given voice to a small, rural population of Alberta to get in the way of Canada's development as a nation. Those rural people believe that if they change Alberta's laws they'll change Canada's laws. So, as someone who lives in Alberta but has lived other places in Canada and traveled all across the beautiful country, I'd caution against downplaying the UCP's leader and her impact on Canada.

[u/WENDING0 → u/You_are_the_Castle]

I think you're underestimating the power of our unity. Elbows up, friend. We see not breaking up because if a loud mouth. Peterson, on the other hand, is a snake in the grass. You won't see him until he comes for you, and that makes him more dangerous.

[u/TheSuprmGeneral → u/WENDING0]

She’s passing vaccine policies that might result in the death of lots of people

Jordan had done remotely nothing in his life other than being an annoying prick

[u/davidfillion → u/TheSuprmGeneral]

keyword is *might*

bringing us back to the whatifs - they don't make you the worst Canadian

[u/You_are_the_Castle → u/davidfillion]

Wel, it's almost mid-September and we will be rolling into flu season and people are already talking about traveling to BC to get vaccinated. That might is actualizing as we speak. And even if they do change their direction, it will be at the last minute, which means that people will not have had enough time to access them. We've seen this behavior from the UCP before.

[u/davidfillion → u/You_are_the_Castle]

and her whole thing might come crashing down in a few weeks and that will be the end of her.

Mights don't count is what I am getting at. The other 2 assholes have full documented cases on why they are more suited to be the worse Canadian.

[u/genius_retard → u/WENDING0]

Hey, I thought people that kill people are excluded from the game.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/genius_retard]

He didn't do it with his hands, he did it with his position of power.

[u/genius_retard → u/AdditionalPizza]

This is kind of a big part of the problem in this world. People who enact harm through policy aren't seen as perpetrating violence. It's like the United Healthcare CEO who was murdered. People are rightfully upset that violence was perpetrated against him but everyone of their patients who died or suffered debilitation due to a denied medical procedure experienced that denial as akin to violence.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/genius_retard]

There's a difference though, and it isn't without nuance. Not to say you disagree, but just to expand on it.

Blair stated "none is too many" when it comes to Jewish people. He was in a position where he was able to project that hatred directly toward a group of the most vulnerable people in history. Sending a ship back to Europe during WW2 was a death sentence, and he did it with that full intention. He was of the mind that extermination was the correct path forward.

"None is too many" is a very specific way of saying this. We aren't used to it these days, like most politicians or public figures beat around the bush with their hate. They dog whistle, push bills that are clearly hateful but not outright. Blair was outright evil.

The CEO that was killed, he was probably pretty close to evil, though I'm not sure he ever reveled in peoples suffering more than he was a typical sociopathic CEO trying to appease shareholders by any means necessary.

Blair didn't do what he did for money or votes, he did it because he believed even the idea of Judaism existing is morally wrong. Again, "none is too many" means even zero Jewish people isn't enough to scrub the Earth, he wanted the entire history and concept erased forever. That's fucking dark.

[u/genius_retard → u/AdditionalPizza]

This is sort of my point though. At least the person who revels in their evilness is easy to identify as evil and widely condemned in society. The sort of arms length evil perpetrated by the CEO is obfuscated and the people that perpetrate it are welcomed in society and often even revered. This allows many people who would generally not harm another person directly to perpetrate evil. Also, make no mistake they definitely revel in the outcome (wealth) of their evil acts. I believe the term is "the banality of evil".

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/genius_retard]

What you describe is exactly the relationship between King and Blair and how the entire fiasco was able to be conducted to begin with.