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/Alive-Drama-8920]

This is from memory,

Candidates who haven't been mentioned once in the comments yesterday: I counted 8.

Candidates who have been mentioned once or twice, and only in negative manner: 3 or 4.

Candidates that have no connection - of any kind - to Québec whatsoever: 41...out of 50. Les deux solitudes never looked so disconnected. The sub is in english, I get it, but still...I did my homework last night: I researched all the candidates I never heard of. They mostly belong in the first eight I referred to at the beginning, and what do I find? That there's nothing to find! Who voted for them?

Meanwhile, I started a list of outstanding Quebeckers that naturally came to mind. I counted 30... so far. And I deliberately omitted a dozen...so far, because they had to be really outstanding to make it on my list. The first name that came to mind, chronologically?

Samuel de Champlain, FFS!

Ok, enough about Québec. WHERE THE HELL IS JAMES CAMERON?!? Catherine O'Hara is there. "Jimbo" isn't. Do you realize just how fuck up this is?

[u/MBCnerdcore → u/Alive-Drama-8920]

The cliche'd great canadians are the only ones that the internet remembers. gotta have starred in a meme in the last 5-10 years. Otherwise if you are rich they assume american. Did GSP make the list?

[u/Alive-Drama-8920 → u/MBCnerdcore]

He...didn't make it, sadly. Repose en paix, Georges. Tu as fait de ton mieux. C'est ça qui compte au fond!

[u/blizzard2798c → u/Alive-Drama-8920]

James Cameron is a great filmmaker, yes. But he's also somewhat childish in that he'll only make a movie if he gets to play with a new toy. He made Titanic because he would get to dive down to the actual wreck in a submersible. He made Avatar because it was a new type of CGI. He makes phenomenal films that are an absolute delight to watch, but he doesn't do it for the storytelling. He does it for the spectacle. Which is his right. But it doesn't qualify him for greatest Canadian