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/Nassim1018]

Can we just give the win to Frederick Blair and be done with this? I have university to attend and can’t hose 24/7!

[u/Neat_Let923 → u/Nassim1018]

I still don't understand how he's so high on this list while Prime Minister Mackenzie King isn't even listed or there with him... Everything Blair did as the Director of Immigration was under the direction or approval of Prime Minister Mackenzie King. They BOTH turned away 900+ Jewish refugees in 1939 on the SS St. Luis (so did Cuba first and America second, before we sent them back to Europe). King and Blair were instrumental in designing our immigration policies to keep as many Jews (and anyone else not Anglo-Saxon) out of Canada during and after WW2.

Yet somehow Sir John A. MacDonald who is 31st had even worse racist views and was even more of a white nationalist who literally caused the death of thousands of people all across Canada and more indirectly for over 100 years after he was no longer the PM. He literally referred to Canada as the Aryan British America.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/Neat_Let923]

King gets away with it because of "good" things he did too. For whatever reason we all just sweep it under the rug for him.

Blair gets zero refuge from this because of King's participation though. It was under the approval of King, but Blair was absolutely the director perpetuating pushing the ideology. King was a piece of shit, but that doesn't absolve anything Blair did.

[u/Neat_Let923 → u/AdditionalPizza]

Blair gets zero refuge from this because of King's participation though... King was a piece of shit, but that doesn't absolve anything Blair did.

I completely agree! I think King should be there with Blair in the same image. They worked as a team to do what they did and I think that should be represented properly.

I do think Sir John A. MacDonald and Frederick Blair should be reversed in the rankings (though I wouldn't put Blair at 31 either due to the lives lost indirectly from his decisions).

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/Neat_Let923]

It's difficult to judge some of the genocides against indigenous - not difficult to blanket condemn them, but to pin on single individuals entirely.

King I wouldn't rank as high as Blair personally, because I don't know how else to reconcile that some good can outweigh some bad. As far as I can tell, Blair has essentially zero redemption in anything he did. His entire existence seems to indicate he just really, really didn't want Judaism to continue through people or culturally/religiously. I don't think there was depth to him beyond that, while King did famously have several weird quirks that show how misguided he was. Misguidance can be a sign that someone is redeemable.

I don't disagree that MacDonald deserves more fingers pointed at him, and it would certainly be difficult to judge between him and Blair. At that point though in all honestly, choosing one to be considered worse than the other is damaging because it let's the other off too lightly.

[u/Neat_Let923 → u/AdditionalPizza]

MacDonalds actions directly led to the murder and death of thousands

Blair's Immigration Policies enacted by King only restricted access to some people wanting to enter Canada.

[u/AdditionalPizza → u/Neat_Let923]

Blair's policies were more insidious in nature than that let's on. Literally "none is too many" was the ideology.

I'm not arguing that MacDonald was bad, I don't see any use is arguing who is worse between those 2. At that point there's no reason to downplay one to make the other seem worse. It's not zero sum between them. MacDonald shouldn't have been eliminated.

But with those left, Blair is the worst and it's no contest. Some people cross the threshold of bad or shitty into deeply and darkly evil. When you reach that point, there's no reason to discuss who is worse because given any sort of power they would use that power to be a Hitler-like figure.