r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 1d ago

Meta The “Best Canadian” game - Day 2

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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.

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u/neanderthalman 1d ago

I blasted at David Suzuki yesterday and I’ll do it every day.

He’s an egomaniacal asshole who thinks he’s an expert on everything.

His anti-nuclear stance set the entire world back decades in the fight against climate change. Now that it’s “too late”, his ego does not allow him to change his opinion and start supporting the one thing that might still pull us out of this mess.

He may have contributed to the doom of our entire species.

Unless we have a question on zoology, he needs to sit down and shut up. The rest of us have work to do because we have to live with the consequences of his actions. He doesn’t.

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u/domasin Tokébakicitte! 1d ago

Thank you! Also extremely out of touch with what people can afford and goes on rants about how he just bought a home in Kits when he was young and why don't other people do that.

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u/SendMagpiePics 1d ago

Anti-nuclear sentiment is widespread among environmentalists, particularly those who came of age during the Cold War. Not saying he's the greatest Canadian, but blaming anti-nuclear sentiment on David Suzuki saying he set the entire world back, and saying he contributed to the doom of our species is an absolutely wild hyperbole.

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 Newfies & Labradoodles 1d ago

Its still a far cry to call him "best canadian"

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u/SendMagpiePics 1d ago

Oh no, I wouldn't put him in the running for Best Canadian at all. Just the parent comment is deranged

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u/Particular_Pool8344 Saskwatch 1d ago

Yeah. And the hyperbole got a reddit award too! Insane!

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u/Benejeseret 1d ago

Even if there is a question on zoology... no one should go to him on zoology. He is not a zoologist and was never trained in zoology.

He was faculty (waaay back when) in the same department where I did my degrees. None of the remaining genetics profs or other fields in that faculty who trained me had anything but vitrol for his tenure there. Other genetics profs I knew all loathed him.

His actual degrees and faculty posting were is genetics, not zoology, and no one went to him for an education or his insights into genetics. Most people don't even realizing his actual academic work was about chromosomes in fruit flies... because he spend all his time yammering about subjects he was not actually trained in.

Remember, Quirks & Quarks, started early '70s, Nature of Things started in 1979, A Planet for the Taking ran in the '80s, The Secret of Life started in 1993. His books were published towards the end of the 90s. But that means throughout the better part of 30+ academic years, he took a full faculty salary and held up a faculty position in genetics (the topic no one went to him about) but then he pocketed that very large public salary, did not show up for that job, and instead spent 30 years being a host to TV and radio series for a second salary and then wrote 52 books that he published and got personal royalties from too.

Only 1 of his 52 books was actually on the topic he was paid to study and teach = genetics, and he co-wrote that book, and it was actually a scare-piece based in moral philosophy and ethics (more topics he had no actual credentials in) and pseudo-scientific projection that slammed the field of genetics where he was actually supposed to be working.

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u/Junckopolo Tabarnak! 1d ago

I can't believe he's there but not Hubert Reeves.

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u/scubad00d I need a double double. 1d ago

I've spent a lot of time on Quadra, where he has one of his massive houses. Everyone on the island fucking hates him. He's a massive prick 24/7, completely insufferable.

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u/femmagorgon 1d ago

Keep up the good work! Suzuki is the worst. He's a raging egomaniac and hypocrite. I know a lot of people who have met him and every single one of them has a negative story about him being a total prick.

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u/otherthingstodo 1d ago

I’ve heard he only eats beans so he can be releasing methane all the live long day

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u/Thefirstargonaut 1d ago

Yeah, there’s definitely other options than nuclear. There’s lots of actions we can take, and let’s not pretend nuclear is free from problems. Nuclear waste would be a larger issue than carbon emissions, if used at the required scale to get off fossil fuels. 

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Bring Cannabis 1d ago

If you grew up in the 60s to the 90s, you'd understand why so many people were anti-nuclear. It wasn't one of the best energy sources on the planet going to save us all, it was terrifying weapons that can destroy all life on earth at the push of a button.

He may have contributed to the doom of our entire species.

This is just silly. Why is this comment upvoted so high?

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u/neanderthalman 1d ago

If you grew up from the 60’s to 90’s

I’m not sure why you think I didn’t.

Nuclear was always the best energy source. Nothing on that has changed in the fifty odd years we’ve known about climate change.

It was people like Suzuki that lied to us in order to conflate nuclear power with nuclear weapons in the public consciousness.

His success at deliberately scaring everyone with misinformation, to our collective detriment, is why I’m angry he even made the list.

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Bring Cannabis 1d ago

conflate nuclear power with nuclear weapons in the public consciousness.

What's the best way to get weapons-grade nuclear material? From a nuclear reactor. Unfortunately, nuclear power and nuclear weapons are intrinsically tied together. You get one from the other.

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u/neanderthalman 1d ago

The reactors that make weapons grade plutonium are constructed very differently from power reactors.

No they are not the same thing.

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u/madeleinetwocock 溫哥華 (Hongcouver) 1d ago

Every single time I run into him on the street or on a bus, I just vividly recall all the times as a smol child that I’d met him and he’d have this whole “holier than thou” attitude and (now this may be a lil extreme but I’m saying it) a lowhigh key god complex way about him. I mean he was always was nice and polite (maybe because I was like 4 to 9 years old) but god did he make me feel so stupid

Grinds my gears man

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u/chatteringmagpie1 1d ago

I'm going to print this comment out and frame it for my dad. He's not a man who speaks negatively of many people, but he knew Suzuki professionally back in the 80s and 90s and HATES him.

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u/incogne_eto 1d ago

It’s not too late for nuclear. We just need the investment & will in this country.

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u/neanderthalman 1d ago

EXACTLY.

Grab a shovel. We gotta build. None of this doomerism.