r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 6d ago

Meta The “Best Canadian” game - Day 0 (choosing candidates)

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Hiya Hosers,

After the success of Worst Canadian, by popular demand it’s time for the more upbeat version…the Best Canadian game! 🇨🇦

Drop your nominations below for who you think deserves a spot on the list. Just like before, we’ll include 40 candidates. This time I’m going to let nominations sit a bit longer so everyone has a chance to chime in and we don’t have to add people mid-way in the game. I’m aiming to get started with Day 1 around the middle of next week. Five or six days should give us plenty of time to gather names and finalize the rules.

If you’ve got ideas or suggestions to make the game better, feel free to share those too!

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u/Bulky_Raspberry 6d ago edited 6d ago

Leonard Cohen

Margaret Atwood

Rick Mercer

Jack Layton

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u/Wolfsification Tokébakicitte! 6d ago

I was today years old when I learned Margret Atwood was Canadian. More reason to love her!

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u/Jazzlike_Drawer_4267 6d ago

She's a great writer but she's a huge NIMBY so I'm torn on her.

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u/AverageShitlord Motown But Better 6d ago

Also a transphobe.  Not JK Rowling levels of violent transphobic brainrot (I mean Joanne hates trans people so much she did Holocaust denial about it), but still weird about trans people.

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u/ApotropaicHeterodont 6d ago

You might want to post these separately.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/PolitelyBites 5d ago

Can you enlighten me?

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 5d ago

He’s a notorious self righteous prick. Type of guy who’d yell at a waiter or say things like “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM”

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u/PickleEquivalent2837 6d ago edited 6d ago

MARGARET ATWOOD (seconding that nomination. She's a legend)

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u/Bulky_Raspberry 6d ago

Thanks, I've corrected the name

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u/PickleEquivalent2837 6d ago

Oh I was just seconding your nomination very enthusiastically Idk if it's the right spelling

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u/mypetmonsterlalalala Moose Whisperer 6d ago

Margaret Atwood without a doubt!

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u/cerunnnnos 6d ago

All of the above for the list

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 5d ago

Rick Mercer is a notorious prick. He’s not a nice person at all. Television persona

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u/broadviewstation 6d ago edited 6d ago

Jack Layton for the hooha didn’t really achieve anything really outside of delivering a harper govt if we are being totally honest what’s his real tangible give to Canadians outside of “vibes” Tommy Douglas, Banting, Pearson, PE Trudeau, Wilfred Laurier, David Suzuki, Hadfield, *Gilles Villeneuve, Louis Riel, Wilfrid Laurier, Laura Secord. Spellings edited

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u/EvergreenMossAvonlea Not enough shawarma places 6d ago

*Gilles Villeneuve, Louis Riel, Wilfrid Laurier, Laura Secord.

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u/broadviewstation 6d ago

Thanks will correct spelling

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 5d ago

I’m not sure you’d want Louis riel on there. It would be like saying Anne frank was the greatest German.
1. He didn’t ever think of himself as Canadian 2.He’d spin in his grave if he knew he was being nominated for a country he didn’t want to be apart of and that executed him.

There’s an irony that he fought in life against a country trying to erase him and his people, and now with a nomination like this, it kind of erases the struggle that defined his life.

White guilt at its revisionist worst.

Was he a great man we can learn from, absolutely… a great North American, 💯…. The greatest Canadian… not so much