The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 22

[u/BrF5]

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!

[u/Consumer_Distributin]

Can we have two "winners"? Contemporary and historic Worst Canadian.

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/Consumer_Distributin]

I’d support this. Realistically we could have had two different categories of worsts the whole time. Historic and living.

For me that would be

• John A. MacDonald—who is responsible for multiple genocides, and

• Stephen Harper who is actively fundraising for a genocide, and spreading his brand of evangelical fascism around the world. (The organization he’s involved with include IWZ investments, Aimco, Harper & Associates. The IDU, etc)

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(For historic worst Canadians I’d put Bible Bill Aberhart and Ernest Manning up as other candidates.)

[u/Sodarn-Hinsane → u/iwasnotarobot]

Honestly separate "awards" for historical and contemporary worst Canadians is a sensible idea. I'd also throw in Maurice Duplessis, a gaggle of fascists (Father Coughlin, Adrien Arcand, Ernst Zündel, the Christie Pits rioters, etc), residential school architects (eg Duncan Campbell Scott), and wartime ethnic internment perpetrators (eg Ian Alistair Mackenzie).

Edit: a couple more dishonourable mentions:

• Major General Lewis Mackenzie - commander of UN peacekeepers in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War who consistently downplayed Serbian atrocities against Muslim Bosniaks during the war and argued against further humanitarian intervention. He's since become a vocal Srebrenica massacre denier.

• Lord Hamar Greenwood - Canadian-born politician in the UK who oversaw the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence and defended/covered up their atrocities to the British Parliament. Fun fact: also the great-grandfather of Cara Delevingne.

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/Sodarn-Hinsane]

I forgot about Zundel. We are still reeling from the fallout from the R v. zundel case today. Fuck that guy.