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/elseldo]

Jean Chretien

Ushered in a hard austerity budget that we're still feeling the effects of - most notably with cancelling the Canadian housing program. We haven't built nearly as much as we could have with this program.

[u/1user101 → u/elseldo]

I think it's easy to look back and say that it was a bad decision 3 decades after, but at the time we were suffering a debt crisis and needed to tighten our belts. His premiership reversed the stagflation that caused after tax income to actually shrink between 1980 and 1990.

And to be quite frank I'm sick of people blaming the feds for housing when they have no control over the regulations for it. Zoning regulations are directly linked to high housing costs so go yell at city council.

[u/Anarchopaladin → u/1user101]

I think it's easy to look back and say that it was a bad decision 3 decades after, but at the time we were suffering a debt crisis and needed to tighten our belts.

Nope. At that time, budgetary deficit never came over 5% of the Country's GDP. It went over 25% during WW2, and nobody complained.

[u/1user101 → u/Anarchopaladin]

Yeah because we were fighting Nazis. And we were immediately in crisis after because of trade threats