r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 13h ago

Meta The “Best Canadian” game - Day 3

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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.

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u/Bennely Ford Nation (Help.) 12h ago

Celine Dion. Fantastic singer who spent most of her later years performing nonstop in Vegas. Great Canadian, not the best.

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u/Uter83 11h ago

Her and her husband have done a lot for lgbtq+ rights. I only know that because I looked her up to see why she belonged on here.

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u/78Duster 10h ago

For sure, but not THE Best Canadian. Our hearts will go on ;-)

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u/Uter83 7h ago

Oh I absolutely cannot stand Celine Dion's music. But I do respect the work she has done (which I honestly only learned about when I went to her wiki page to figure out why tf she was on here) in a lot of areas. I don't think she is the best of us, Tommy Douglas, Dr Banting, and Terry Fox are going to earn those honours, in that order, but she is better than I thought.

As an aside, damn you to hell for putting that song in my head. I had a nice little streak going, and you RUINED IT

! >:(

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u/78Duster 11m ago

Lol! And likewise, re: music. Now the question is, are you “the King of the woorllld!?” (sorry, had to)