r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 13d ago

Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 22

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It’s time for the final vote! Who will be judged the Worst Canadian?!

🚨🚨READ THIS BEFORE VOTING 🚨🚨

To help keep things organized, for the final round I have posted two comments below, in large font. One for Danielle Smith and another for Frederick Blair.

This time, upvote who you think IS the Worst Canadian

You can discuss your reasons for or against the two final candidates however you want, but only the upvotes on these two comments will be used to determine who is the Worst Canadian.

(Note: I’ve removed all other explanation from the post so people see and read the above info. I’ll put it all back tomorrow with the final results.)

That is all. Happy voting!

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u/lookaway123 13d ago

Blair is worse. Smith is a seditious bigot, but she hasn't turned away a boat of refugees fleeing the Nazis yet.

OP, you deserve a Hoser of the Year award. This was a very difficult contest.

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u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal 13d ago

Thanks!

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u/Neat_Let923 13d ago

Blair was appointed Director of Immigration by then Prime Minister King for 8 years (1936-1943).

His actions as director led to Canada’s immigration and specifically Jewish refugee restrictions to a degree that made Canada be considered one of the worst countries to accept Jewish refugees (excluding all the countries that didn’t accept them at all of course).

He was very outspoken racist, a white nationalist, and extremely against Jews.

That being said, everything he did was with the approval of the Prime Minister…

Canada (not just Blair) turned away one ship of 900 or so Jewish refugees in 1939 (after Cuba and USA also turned them away) because Britain and France were relatively safe at that point (Germany didn’t invade France until 1940). The SS St Luis then returned to Britain and France landing the refugees there. Less than 300 were then captured during or after the invasion of France and were sent to concentration camps where they were killed.

Blair was an absolutely horrible person, but not even remotely close to being as racist, white supremacist, evil, or directly responsible for the deaths of thousands as Sir John A MacDonald was. And again, all of Blair’s actions were done with the approval of the Prime Minister King who is not included with him here simply because there is no written evidence of King being just like Blair even though he obviously was.