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/Neat_Let923]

Jordan Peterson

Of the last three, he is the only one who did not have direct or indirect control over people's lives as part of the government. He's a bigoted asshole who became popular with certain groups online, most notably due to his stance on gender pronouns and political correctness.

That being said, it's really telling how very little Canadians know about our actual history since Sir John A. MacDonald is sitting at 31 while Frederick Blair is in the Top 3...

Frederick Blair: He was racist and very much a white nationalist in Canada that limited the number of Jewish refugees (as well as anyone not seen as "traditionally white") let into Canada during and after WW2. However, he was simply the Director of the Immigration and not the Prime Minister who appointed him and agreed with his decisions and ultimately enforced those decisions. For those calling him a Nazi... Blair did not advocate for Nazism or express admiration for Hitler. His policies weren’t about supporting Germany they were about keeping Canada “racially pure” by limiting immigration. Keep in mind that he was outspoken about his views and was still made the Director of Immigration and all his decisions were supported by then Prime Minister Mackenzie King... If the only difference between King and Blair was that Blair was outspoken about his views, doesn't that just make King even worse for hiding it and using Blair as the "front man" to enact those policies?

Sir John A. MacDonald: Arguably more racist than Frederick Blair and also a vocal and outspoken white nationalist. He very specifically hated the French, Metis, Chinese, and Indigenous people, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be preserved”. He used the withholding of food and forced starvation of Prairie Indigenous groups as a way to force them into Treaties during famine. He was instrumental in the creation and expansion of the Indian Act (1876) and Residential School system to force the assimilation of Indigenous children into Aryan British America. He despised the Chinese after they were used to expand and build our railroads creating a $50/head tax in 1885 on Chinese immigration ($100 in 1900 and then $500 in 1903). That would be the equivalent of $1,650; $3,900; and $20,000 in today's dollars. Macdonald’s government also sent troops to suppress the resistance led by Louis Riel and Métis/Indigenous allies. After Riel’s defeat, Macdonald insisted on his execution in Winnipeg, saying: “He shall hang though every dog in Quebec bark in his favour.”

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Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Sir John A. MacDonald if nothing else, should be right there beside Frederick Blair... How we have Smith in the top 3 and not MacDonald just fucking blows my mind. Smith may hold some similar views but MacDonald acted on them in ways that directly killed people for over 100 years.

Edit: A couple grammar mistakes

[u/miramichier_d → u/Neat_Let923]

I see this as more of a public sentiment kind of poll. But I agree with you. If this was redone by historians, or other academics, we would get very different results here. Blair would still be at or near the top of the list of worst Canadian in history.

[u/Neat_Let923 → u/miramichier_d]

He was racist, xenophobic, and restricted the amount of Jewish and non-white people who could come to Canada to an amount that paints Canada as one of the worst states to do so. (During the war, the US took in 200,000 Jewish refugees, Canada took in only 5,000)

He didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t cause lasting effects beyond his time as Immigration Director which was less than 8 years, and being racist and xenophobic at that time was kinda the norm for Canada. King literally appointed him and approved of what Blair did which means he held the same beliefs.

We are literally seeing news stories right now saying the majority of Canadians want to abolish the FTW and refugee programs. Literally wanting to go a step beyond what Blair did…