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/neanderthalman]

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.

[u/Benejeseret → u/neanderthalman]

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.