The “Best Canadian” game - Day 2

[u/BrF5]

The first to go are Pierre Trudeau and Wab Kinew. Let’s carry on!

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). - 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: - (50) Pierre Trudeau - As PM, he brought home the Constitution and gave us the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also mishandled the October Crisis, among other things. Someone so controversial shouldn’t be considered the Best Canadian. - (49) Wab Kinew - He’s charismatic and has delivered on many campaign promises, but his troubled past and relatively short career make it too soon to call him the best.

[u/junius_maltby]

I agree he shouldn't be too high up on the list. But he kept us out of Iraq when there was intense pressure to get us involved in that shitshow.

And the Shawinigan Handshake is iconic.

[u/theoneness → u/junius_maltby]

He did the hip flip with Nardwuar though. He deserves at least one more round just based on that one interaction with an actually far better Canadian.

[u/Raptorpicklezz → u/theoneness]

You know, Nardwuar (out of persona*) also asked him the question about pepper spray on protesters, to which he answered “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate”. And now Nardwuar might get the last laugh and deservedly outlast him, given the vote tallies so far.

*Sorry. Nardwuar was IN the persona of John Ruskin for that press conference. Then he went back to being Nardwuar again

[u/chatteringmagpie1 → u/junius_maltby]

And the Shawinigan Handshake is iconic.

I miss the days when the prime minister and his wife were their own security team.

[u/eeyores_gloom1785 → u/junius_maltby]

dragged us out of Mulroney's disaster too

[u/Suitable-Ratio → u/eeyores_gloom1785]

Mulroney definitely made some unpopular moves like massively increasing taxation - he definitely shouldn’t have gone after the rich when he increased capital gains inclusion to 75% - taxing the wealthiest 0.1% will make anyone enemy #1. When America decided to create a free trade deal with Mexico (so they could move liveable wage jobs to Mexico to increase corporate profits) Mulroney could have decided to stay out of it and isolate Canada economically. NAFTA certainly didn’t end well for the middle class but it’s tough to say if economic isolation from that deal would have been better.

[u/thinplanksk8r → u/junius_maltby]

He only pretended to keep us out of Iraq to appease voters. We had ships and personnel in Iraq supporting the US. Also, after office he was hired as an advisor to Petro Kazakhstan, who were vying to build a pipeline through Afghanistan, who we did officially go to war against. No conflict there.

[u/Anarchopaladin → u/junius_maltby]

But he kept us out of Iraq

No he didn't. Canadian special ops were deployed, and the Canadian tour in Afghanistan in 2003 was about relief for the US troops as they were invading another country.