108 Replies to “It’s Like Justin Trudeau Meets Canadian Idol!”

  1. There are just too many to chose just one.
    Do we go for mediocrity in their chosen field or overall mediocrity? Those who aim for mediocrity? Those who achieve it by default? Those born into it?
    Must sleep on this.

  2. Ahem. While it is never my intention to spoil the party, I should like to note for the record that mediocre is essentially a synonym for average. And so, under the circumstances, the question that has been tabled is: Who is the most average Canadian?
    That’s one of the stupidest questions I’ve ever heard. Call
    for Carl Friedrich Gauss, white courtesy telephone please.

  3. Those of us that have waited in any hospital waiting room for hours and hours and hours (you get the picture…) must at some point think, “who gave us this mediocrity”? ah yes, Mr. Douglas.

  4. ah yes Vitruvius, then I suppose Mr. Douglas is out of the average… having most certainly hit over his wait.. er, weight.

  5. My first thought was someone from CTV news, but there are so many I can’t pick one.

  7. Vit: your definition is perhaps historically accurate; however, the word ‘mediocre’, at least in my experience, has fallen into the common vernacular to mean of inferior, or low quality. A cursory scan of some online dictionaries bears this out.
    I look forward to seeing some of the submissions.

  8. Exactly, Marc. The correct logical answer
    to the question, as postulated, is: nobody.
    No human being is most average, each human
    being is a unique individual, good, bad, & both.
    Even Joe Clark, unless the average Canadian is a federal politician ~ did I mention Gauss? No, but seriously, you have to stop and think about this for a second. Most average? The concept is absurd. Oh, you say, he is in the middle of everyone else. Is that most average? Are most people in the middle of everone else? No, most people are themself.
    The very concept of most average is a Communist plot 😉

  10. No, sorry, Colin, that doesn’t work. The linked web site says: “we’ve debated the best, we’ve debated the worst, now we must decide [the most mediocre]”. If you are claiming that mediocre is a synonym for bad, inferior, low quality, worst, well, they said they already covered that, and the other end, now they’re looking for the highest middle. But no individual can possibly be the highest middle, the definition of middle doesn’t work that way. Did I mention Gauss?

  11. I thought by now that Canadians had gotten over this lack of confidence inferiority complex crap.
    Looks like some of us haven’t.

  13. No one has nominated Jon Smith from Toronto? I’m disappointed.

  14. That’s like asking who’s the most canadian canadian. 🙂 Tommy Hunter? That bald guy with the dimple chin who played the cop on ‘The Beachcombers’? Lloyd Axworthy? Ben Wicks? Al Waxman? Bob Oxley? This is easy!

  16. My vote is for I’m Peter Mansbridge and You’re Not, perhaps one of the least inspiring news reporters ever: Even Lloyd Robertson shows more zip. Then there’s the fact that he won’t move over–or on–to give younger reporters a chance to sit at The National’s news desk.
    What is it with guys who work for the CBC? They NEVER leave (unless it’s to Al-Jazeera). I guess that’s what sinecures in public institutions do to you: rot the brain and glue you to the trough…er, I mean, workplace. Oink, oink.

  17. I chose Iggy Ignatief.
    Remember him?
    Mass media couldn’t wait until he came back to Canada from decades of elite pedagoguery in the USA, to save the corrupt Liberal regime.
    Lo and behold, his only memorable utterance so far for Canadian consumption, “Puffins hide their excrement”
    Way to go Iggy!

  18. We have some pretty glaring examples of mediocrity in high places, largely due to playing the Leftist agenda.
    How about Beverley McLachlin and Louise Arbour?

  19. Any mayor of Montreal for the last few years – Gerard Tremblay, Pierre Bourque, Jean Doré. Bourque the gardener was like Chance the gardener of the film Being There. Tremblay was only elected because he pulled a stunt of spending the night with an immigrant in his slum apartment to show he ‘cares’ about the little people. Doré never knew a consultant he wouldn’t hire.

  20. Some are born mediocre, some achieve mediocrity, and others have mediocrity thrust upon them.
    Canada’s motto: Live free, if necessary, I guess.

  21. I was going to go for Iggy Ignatief, but in the end I had to go for Paul Martin. A guy so completely mediocre that even his fall from the top was unremarkable.
    Peter Principle in action, baby.

  23. how about the justice system in this country for this award….in a few years when all the terrorist trials, three major ones so far, that are now going on are finished and all the terrorists are free…my bid for them to be nominated as the most mediocre will surely have some merit…or will it be the news reporters and owners that downplay all the trials so that hardly anyone knows they are going on…or will it be the mediocre masses that just go along their merry way…frankly my dear,,, I do give a damn…god help us from another trudeau…

  25. *
    i was gonna offer up cherniak… but his blog
    is slathered with quotes about how smart,
    funny and good-looking     he is.
    so it must be someone else.
    *

  26. I think the whole point of the contest is to point out how Canada celebrates people of average talent and ability. It’s clear when you see that they have Luba Goy on the banner. Is everyone really that incapable of appreciating sarcasm?
    So, whatever the exact etymological meaning of the word is, it makes sense.

  27. The common denominator in some of these suggestions seem to point to overrated and under achieved, the end result being ‘mediocrity’. So in a sense Vit your definition works…they average out to be mediocre.
    richfisher…Margaret Atwood came to mind immediatley…highly overrated by the University of Toronto.Boring books.

  28. Canada does more than celebrate people of average talent and ability, it gives them lifetime gigs at taxpayer expense: Goy and the rest of the spectacularly unfunny Air Farce team, the 22 Minutes un-funny guys, Ralph Benmergui, Jian Ghomeshi, George Strombo-alphabits, Michaealle Jean, Tom Harrington (if he hasn’t already jumped to al-Jihadi), Laurie Brown (ditto), Terry Liebel (ditto), Avi Lewis (ditt … er um too late on that one!), Greg freakin’ Millen (terrible hockey “colour” guy) . . .

  29. Average is underestimated in value. In my lingo it’s an approximation for balance – the secret to a good life.

  30. Well, Peggy Atwood immediately came to mind, too, but she IS a rather good poet.
    As for her novels: zzzzzzz. As you say, richfisher and bluetech, highly overrated and BOR-ING and PRE-ICT-ABLE. My biggest problem with Peg is her absolute disdain for spirituality (aka Christianity), as though all Canadians should be cookie-cutter replicas cut out of lib-left dough only.
    YUCK.
    ‘More than mediocre: substandard in my books.

  31. Mediocrity is the product of assimilating and acting on worthless ideas.
    Given that criteria there was no hesitation in my choice…Fruit fly counter and vacant eco evangelist Dave Suzuki with Dion a close second

  33. “The general tendency of things throughout the
    “Mediocrity is the product of assimilating and acting on worthless ideas.”
    Let me correct to read “mundane ideas”.
    “When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
    Certainly Suzuki and Dion are well-springs of mediocrity.

  34. I voted for Ben Mulroney. For being the host of the mediocre Canadian version of a hit US TV show. H/t to Kate for the inspiration, of course.

  35. Vitruvius: It’s not a maths exercise. See the “most” here as most representative, purest form.
    YES, Margaret Atwood, for sure. Robertson Davies too. And the dour Margaret Laurence.
    Tommy Hunter, the uber-mediocritist. How vididly I can recall as a teenager being utterly mystified by the phenomenon.
    Wayne and Shuster?
    And now I’m in trouble!!!
    DON CHERRY.
    Think about it. The very fact that so many of us see him as a “national treasure” speaks to our essential mediocrity as a nation. Glenn Gould is a national treasure.

  36. Mediocrity is a Canadian virtue that the leftards worship. Just like Corner Gas, I spit when ever I say his name, Tommy Douglas, pehtu. Yuck a little flem this time.
    That’s my mediocre answer.
    Cheers

  37. how about the whole slate of lieberal federal house sitters. who have made sitting on their duffs and then running for the halls at vote time an exercise in MSM mediocraty. mediamediocraty – where the MSM doesnt even report it any more.

  38. Ralph Goodale comes to mind…in fact, only his name comes to mind! Can’t think of one thing he has done that steps above mediocrity, other than the fact that his career will go down in flames for supporting Dion’s Green Shaft and screwing the Sask.
    I agree that Canadian literature is also mediocre, lacklustre, dark, and horribly unimaginative. I would add Timothy Findley to the list of our unremarkable authors.

  39. Dion… a man an his dog I know that’s two but I just love it when they show him with his skinny little arms held up with those little clenched fists awwww.
    cheers Bubba

  40. Raine Maida, full name Michael Anthony Maida (born February 18, 1970) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, best known as the front man of the rock band Our Lady Peace. He has stated that he “added Raine to his birth name as a personal statement on his pursuit of the arts”.
    He is just so mediocre in so many ways….

  41. Well I think we all know it’ll come down to a cage match slap fest between Justin Trudeau and Ben Mulroney….
    Who ever comes out with the least mussed hair wins!

  44. My vote:
    Stephane Dion
    Sociologist. Liberal. Hopeless. Media loves him.
    Although the list of mediocre Canadians reads like a who’s who of CDN public life, Dion is their leader.

  45. It has to be the Canadian leftist. It cannot be one of the names of those who stand out. Even if you hate or disagree with those who stand out on the left, they still are not mediocre or they wouldn’t stand out. When you are known you have achieved something even if you are a no talent bum therefore, not mediocre.
    The Canadian leftist aspires to an average job (preferably government) An average car so as not to look piggy, an average house (same reason). However, the Canadian leftist does not want anyone else to have one iota more than he has and wants his government to legislate it or tax us to that point..
    He is for all things average/fair/mediocre. Therefore the heart of the mediocre Canadian is the Canadian Leftist.
    No has told the Canadian leftist that LIFE IS NOT FAIR, NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL.

  46. Vitruvius, 1:50:
    Mediocre: lackluster, forgettable, prosaic. Antonym: Excellent.
    Prosaic: unimaginative, tedious, plodding, bland. Antonyms: interesting, imaginative, inspired.
    It seems to me that in common usage the term mediocre is not really a synonym for average, but rather for something like “not quite hitting the mark” or “not notably good at (X).” It’s rarely if ever used in the context of statistical analysis to indicate “norm” or “average”.

  47. Excellent point John V…Althought there’s also mediocre right wing advocates (Joe Clark comes to mind)they are more so for the fact they lean to the left!
    So yeah, the left is the absolute kingdom for mediocrity.

  49. Hey vit…Carl Friedrich Gauss has been hanging out in my basement for the last 153 years. He just left my house to pick-up the courtesy phone. Watch for him coming from south of the 49th!

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