The Greatest Canadian I'm hereby proposing a winner take all betting pool on that there Greatest Canadian program over on the CBC. It's what Johnie A. would have wanted. I bet 5 bucks it'll go down like this:
1. Lester B. Pearson
2. Pierre Trudeau
3. Frederick Banting
4. Wayne Gretzky
5. Alexander Graham Bell
6. Tommy Douglas
7. David Suzuki
8. Don Cherry
9. Terry Fox
10. John A. MacDonald
However, since I know jack shit about Canadian history, I'm probably wrong.
7 comments | How would you determine who was closest? | | |
| A complicated system off the top of my head along the lines of: 5 points for each correct answer. Each answer that is one off: 4 pts., 2 off: 3 pt. And so on, for a maximum of 50 pts. Highest score wins! | | |
I didn't even crack the top 100!
My contributions to society continue to go largely unrecognized.
For instance, I once took a dump in Prince Rupert, BC. That's more than Trudeau ever did for Western Canada. | | |
10. Don Cherry- great for coaching several mediocre American hockey teams to mediocrity, or for working four minutes a week at taxpayers' expense?
9. Lester B. Pearson- OK, he won a Nobel Prize, but it was the Peace Prize, the second-slackest prize. The only other thing he did was give us that ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly flag, which I think is ugly.
8. Alexander Graham Bell- He would rank better but for the fact that he is not Canadian. Well, he's Canadian in the way that Good Ladd is Canadian. A Scotsman living in Canada. Not Canadian.
7. David Suzuki- I like The Nature of Things. No one else does. Besides, how great can you be if you got stuck in a Canadian internment camp?
6. Tommy Douglas- Gave us Medicare. Every time I wait 12 hours in an emergency room, I think of Tommy.
5. Pierre Trudeau- John Lennon liked him, which is cool. He gave us a huge debt and lots of regional alienation, which is bad. Push.
4. Wayne Gretzky- Yes, only a hockey player, but by far the best hockey player ever. Ask foreigners what they know about Canada, and they mention him.
3. Frederick Banting: His discovery has saved thousands of lives, and he won a real Nobel Prize.
2. John A. MacDonald: Without him, there wouldn't have been a Canada, and no list. (Hanging Louis Riel kicks him down one spot).
1. Terry Fox | | |
Alice, your scoring system isn't nearly complicated enough.
Here's how it ought to go down:
To determine the winner, you look at each of the 45 head-to-head matchups between the 10 so-called greatest Canadians. You score a point for each match-up winner you predicted. Example: if Bell were 1st, and Suzuki 2nd, Alice would get a point for that matchup, because she ranked Bell higher than Suzuki. Chrisdye would get no points for that matchup because he ranked Suzuki over Bell. Repeat 45 times.
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