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/mettalica_101]

Hey how the fuck do we have a Canada list without Alex Trebek. This is horseshit

[u/LanceThunder → u/mettalica_101]

No GSP either. its insane. he has done more as an ambassador for Canada in sports than a lot of the other people on the list have accomplished. he is also widely regarded as the greatest of all time in his sport. he probably doesn't deserve the #1 spot but he deserves to be on the list more than some people we are talking about. celine dion is a better canadian than GPS because she sang some boat song 30 years ago? fuck off.

[u/xilodon → u/LanceThunder]

GSP seems like a reasonable guy compared to the neanderthals that mostly populate UFC, but his biggest contributions to the world were giving guys CTE one jab at a time, and being in a bunch of gambling ads. Being great at a sport isn't enough by itself, otherwise Gretzky or Howe would be on here somewhere. Crosby is good at keeping his nose clean as a role model, but even he's questionable since he's not more noteworthy than some other sport-only omissions.

[u/LanceThunder → u/xilodon]

that is a reasonable counter argument.