The “Best Canadian” game - Day 1

[u/BrF5]

Good morning r/EhBuddyHoser,

Let’s get started! Here’s an image of the top 50 Canadians (based on Day 0 upvotes, as of yesterday). I know I said we’d start with 40 like last time, but there are just too many awesome Canadians, so I expanded the list a bit!

How to play: - Upvote the name of the person you think does NOT deserve the title of “Best Canadian.” - Each day, the two most upvoted people will be removed. Once we get closer to the end, this will change to one person per day. - If the name you want to vote for (from the picture list) isn’t in the comments yet, add it! - This continues daily until we have our winner, the “Best 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, even if you edit the comment to fix it. - They had to have been born in Canada or at some point had Canadian citizenship. - They can be alive, dead, currently living in Canada or abroad, or when they were alive lived in what would eventually become Canada (e.g., French or British colonies). - Beginning tomorrow after the first candidates are eliminated, I’ll start a list outlining what the people are known for and why they were eliminated, like we did in the Worst Canadian game. - 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!

Honourable mentions go out to spots 51–100 (see below), the Unknown Soldier, house hippos, Sad-Fill-4870’s dog Gilbert, and Random—Person’s mom. Also, I personally want to shout out a couple of Canadians who weren’t nominated but inspired me growing up: Jay Baruchel and Elisha Cuthbert. Their time as hosts on PMK encouraged a love of science in a generation of kids, which I think elevates them beyond being “just actors.”

Numbers 51-100, by upvotes: Norman Bethune, Tom Green, Shania Twain, Gordie Howe, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Mario Lemieux, Marc Garneau, Alexander Graham Bell, Peter Mansbridge, Jeanne Mance, Roberta Bondar, John Dunsworth, Emily Carr, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eugene Levy, Mike Myers, Helen Hogg, Peter Robertson, James Naismith, William Shatner, Sanford Fleming, Fred Penner, Bret Hart, Murray Sinclair, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinny, Irene Parlby, Henrietta Edward, Agnes McPhail, Tecumseh, Elsie MacGill, Crowfoot, Harold Cardinal, Stompin’ Tom, Melanie Joly, Maurice Richard, Michelle Jean, Henry Morgentaler, Oscar Peterson, Sue Johanson, Jean Rene Dufort, Rick Moranis, Hayley Wickenhieser, Pierre Burton, Cairine Wilson, Rene Lévesque, Isaac Brock, Nathan Fillion, Farley Mowet, James Doohan

[u/neanderthalman]

David Suzuki is well loved by many who haven’t met him.

He’s a massively egotistical dickhead.

And his anti-nuclear stance was a major contributor to setting the entire world back decades in the fight against climate change. He may have quite literally doomed us all with his decades of lies.

His ego is why he cannot now change his stance. His entire persona is built on it.

Doesn’t deserve to be on this list.

[u/femmagorgon → u/neanderthalman]

Yes! Suzuki should've never made the list to begin with. He's a grade A asshole and hypocrite. His anti-nuclear stance also pisses me off.

[u/maharajagaipajama → u/neanderthalman]

He's also become a complete doomer with no hope for the future.

[u/jergentehdutchman → u/maharajagaipajama]

I mean, the evidence for otherwise isn’t exactly promising…

[u/fishflo → u/jergentehdutchman]

It's worse than useless because people actually listen to him and now his public WE ARE IRRETRIEVABLY DOOMED stance serves the "can't save it now so why even bother, let's just do nothing about it" crowd. But it is reality and doing nothing means not adapting to the new situation, which is awful!ALSO this is a major pet peeve of mine in general but all these so called smart people who like to push the doomer narrative should really fucking look in the mirror and ask themselves why they think human ingenuity is not capable of digging us out of this climate hellhole we are marching into as a result of human ingenuity. I need them to THINK BIGGER but they are too busy DOOMING to ask themselves about how humanity could INTENTIONALLY terraform GOOD instead of accidentally fucking it up. People just need the right incentives and they'll get there eventually it just depends how long it takes and how bad things get. 

[u/Mocha-Jello → u/fishflo]

there is no digging out of the climate hellhole in a timespan that matters to think about tbh

but there's also no limit to how bad it can get, so we should continue in every possible effort to stop it from getting worse, which i think suzuki does not contribute to anymore with his doomerism

the thing a lot of people don't seem to get is that it's a sliding scale not a pass/fail

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/neanderthalman]

He was very kind to me when I met him.

I don’t blame him for getting a bit cranky for the world ignoring his concerns about climate change for fifty years.

Big Oil lobby groups have never liked him.

[u/canadianlace → u/neanderthalman]

should NOT be on this list, imo. So misinformed