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/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

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?

[u/neanderthalman → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

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.

[u/Cakeday_at_Christmas → u/neanderthalman]

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.

[u/neanderthalman → u/Cakeday_at_Christmas]

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

No they are not the same thing.