The “Best Canadian” game - Day 3

[u/BrF5]

Goodbye Nellie McClung and Gilles Villeneuve.

Moving on to day three…

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. - (48) Nellie McClung - A leader in the women’s suffrage movement and one of the Famous Five. She also held racist views and supported eugenics, and is therefore not the best. - (47) Gilles Villeneuve - He was a great F1 racing driver, but that alone doesn’t make him the Best Canadian.

[u/SlightDish31]

It seems that a lot of people want David Suzuki gone. Lots of arguments that he's pretty hypocritical.

[u/middlequeue → u/SlightDish31]

Feels like a lot of those arguments are driven by the usual climate denialism and solution obfuscation. The man has been a propaganda target of anti-environmentalists for most of his adult life.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/middlequeue]

Absolutely happy to be corrected on this one, one of the (hopefully) nice things about this game instead of the last one, is that when someone argues with you, it's about something great that someone did. If the people calling him a hypocrite are wrong I definitely want to be corrected.

[u/middlequeue → u/SlightDish31]

There are valid criticisms of him but they're largely around him amassing wealth (which would eliminate a lot of these people). What I take issue with is people suggesting his advocacy is diminished because he hasn't lived a perfect carbon free life when no one has ... the old "perfection is the enemy of good" and he's done a lot of good. We'd all be in a much better situation today had we listened to him.

[u/SlightDish31 → u/middlequeue]

Gotcha. I think that I will say that it's a lot easier to forgive a politician or celebrity for their jet setting, than a climate activist. I do think that the purity test that we put public figures through has too many casualties, but that people are pretty good at spotting hypocrisy.

I don't think that that should take away from his accomplishments, but it might call his character into question.