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

  1. I have to go with The Phantom on this one. It takes a very special level of mediocrity to spend your entire life shooting for one job, get that job and loose it in such a way as no one actually notices.
    Paul Martin it is!

  3. Wazza’madder wit youse guys? Jean Chretien takes the prize, hands down!
    He had Canada sit out the greatest economic boom in US history. That’s mediocre!

  4. Vitruvius, I understand your point but you are splitting hairs a bit. Surely you understand the spirit of the question?
    What word would you use in place of mediocre?
    Perhaps the question would have been better worded “Who is the Canadian that best epitomizes mediocrity” or something like that.
    Of course the list of such Canadians is so damn long I would hardly know where to start.

  5. I voted for J.D.Roberts.His mediocrity needs to be acknowledged by all.
    I’d be remiss if Ron Maclean didn’t get a nod…he took my old job, goddamnit!

  6. My problem was determination of which of the Dion twins deserved mediocrity more; Celine or Stefan? What? Stefan is a boy? But don’t you need those…??
    OK, Celine it is.

  7. The only answer I could think of encapsulates a good deal of average people in this country: the Toronto Maple Leafs.

  8. Rick Mercer and the whole cast of This Hour has 22 Minutes. Oh yeah, and Sarah Polley.

  9. Oh this is great fun, and a wonderful way to rid oneself of frustrations… these are just a few who bug me the most:
    I chose Justin Trudeau, lisping progeny of a Prime Minister who stuck around wayyy toooo looooong.
    Sheila McCarthy, Canadian actress (Little M on the Prairie) who you would think by now has made enough money off taxpayers to get her schnozz fixed.
    Paul Shaffer, un-funny wind-up monkey act on David Letterman.
    Ralph Goodale, sanctimonious blowhard.
    Stephane Dion, wimp. ‘Nuff said.
    George Strombolalalalala, wanna-be rebel rocker who thinks he’s smart enough to host a mediocre talk show lambasting conservatives any chance he gets.
    Oooooh, I could go on forever!

  11. Me No Dhimmi: With all due respect, Don Cherry actually is a national treasure:
    1) because he bugs the Hell out of the CBC types who have to keep him on Hockey Night in Canada on account of his huge following, and
    2) because, in his private life, his charitable work is first-class. From Wiki: In 1997, Cherry’s wife, Rose (whose name motivated Cherry to always wear a rose on his lapel) died of cancer. Cherry contributed in developing Rose Cherry’s Home for Kids which has since been renamed to The Darling Home for Kids in Milton, Ontario–a hospice for children. You can take a look at the great work this home for kids does at
    http://www.darlinghomeforkids.ca/
    For his work on TV, I’d never put Don Cherry on a list of “national treasures,” but for all of his charity work, I obviously do. 🙂

  12. Rene Simard: The Canadian Donny Osmond who sang through his nose and wasn’t nearly as cute!
    OK I’m done now.

  13. BTW, MND, I agree that Glenn Gould IS a national treasure.
    I think at SDA we’ve now compiled a list of about seven national treasures. We’ve been far more successful at listing the gazillions of mediocrities who pass for “leaders” and “elites” in our country.
    Oh Canada! 🙁

  14. It’s hard not to pick Paul “top priority” Martin but my vote is for Dion. Maladroit doofus!

  15. I voted for William Lyon Mackenzie King, in large part because poet FR Scott made the case so well over 50 years ago:
    How shall we speak of Canada,
    Mackenzie King dead?
    The Mother’s boy in the lonely room
    With his dog, his medium and his ruins?
    He blunted us.
    We had no shape
    Because he never took sides,
    And no sides
    Because he never allowed them to take shape.
    He skilfully avoided what was wrong
    Without saying what was right,
    And never let his on the one hand
    Know what his on the other hand was doing.
    The height of his ambition
    Was to pile a Parliamentary Committee on a Royal Commission,
    To have “conscription if necessary
    But not necessarily conscription,”
    To let Parliament decide–
    Later.
    Postpone, postpone, abstain.
    Only one thread was certain:
    After World War I
    Business as usual,
    After World War II
    Orderly decontrol.
    Always he led us back to where we were before.
    He seemed to be in the centre
    Because we had no centre,
    No vision
    To pierce the smoke-screen of his politics.
    Truly he will be remembered
    Wherever men honour ingenuity,
    Ambiguity, inactivity, and political longevity.
    Let us raise up a temple
    To the cult of mediocrity,
    Do nothing by halves
    Which can be done by quarters.

  17. Not a person, but I vote for public schools and school boards. The blatant attempt to redirect those who would excel academically to excel in mediocrity.

  18. Certainly not Bob Rae. With limited assistance from a handful of comrades, he managed to destroy Ontario’s flourishing economy, painstakingly built up over so many years.
    The people who enthusiastically want him to do the same to the entire country are certainly potential candidates.

  19. How about Barbara Hall, insignificant twit who sidled off to HRC in Ontario? She also ran for Mayor of Toronto, center of Leftoid universe, got beaten by an equally stunned and insignificant twit, Cadillac Socialist, Miller.
    Guess neither are SIGNIFICANT enough to be graded!

  20. I nominate Rick Mercer – the ‘reporter’ who specializes in chasing down and bullying all types of mediocre personalities across Canada.
    And yes, he’s been at CBC forever!!!

  21. How about the Toronto Maple Leafs? We have Hockey Night in Toronto on CBC, they are proclaimed as “Canada’s team” and TSN is basically the Toronto Sports Network….yet they haven’t won anything since ’67? That’s my vote!!

  22. Buzz Hargrove. He yells and screams and threatens and still, despite his blatherings, the free market economy wins. Heh.
    (Maybe he should then be in the “useless” or “ineffective” category?)

  25. “Some are born mediocre, some achieve mediocrity, and others have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
    Love it!
    I’m sure the answer is Mark Jackson, a non-comedian chosen by his parent CBC to host the intolerably boring Maria search show.
    Or, maybe just CBC!

  27. I’m choosing the gum stick guy… the Scottish blowhard in the EXTRA commericals.

  29. “how about the justice system in this country for this award”
    Posted by: cosmos at July 3, 2008 9:53 AM
    Sorry cosmos, can’t agree. The Canadian justice system would need to improve one heck of a lot before it could be considered mediocre. It’s not just the “human rights” apparatchiks who give our justice system a bad name. The criminal courts fail law abiding Canucks every day and coddle criminals, even aiding in their “development”. As for civil justice, it’s become too expensive and time consuming for ordinary Canucks to obtain it and to be able to consider it confidently with respect to even everyday normal commercial transactions. A lot of the responsibility for this rests with lawyers and judges, but the politicians have a great deal of responsibility too.
    It’s all so sad. With our English Common Law heritage we have a great legal framework and tradition, but we’ve entrusted it to scoundrels, poltroons and moonbats.

  30. Ebt: I bet a lot more people would remember Elwood Glover if you mentioned “Elwood Glover’s Luncheon Date” — I can hear the “ahh”s already.
    If we’re talking quintessential Canadian mediocrity of the sort that makes us a special people, Me No Dhimmi came up with an astute choice in Tommy Hunter. There’s nobody like him in the pantheon of applied mediocrity. It’s like someone promised him $100 before every song provided that he phrased it in the least creative, interesting or exciting way possible. It’s almost impossible to avoid giving your own interpretation of a song — try it — but Hunter didn’t give his or anyone else’s; it’s like he was reading the sheet music for the very first time, and at the limits of his ability, while he sang.
    He doesn’t qualify for this contest though because he was aiming for blandness/mediocrity. Or so it appeared. Plus, he was so mediocre that no one would be motivated in the slightest to vote for him.

  32. I voted for Rick Mercer
    he’s got to be the most unfunny comedian on the planet
    but he’s short, gay and liberal so they gave him a show
    to find fault with everything conservative and Mercer hates conservatives
    because they don’t promote the gay agenda of the political left

  33. Whoever said Buzz Hargrove was on the right track but enlarge it to all unions, public or private sector. Their entire raison d’etre is to reward mediocrity and cut excellence off at the knees. Union members’ goal is to give less and less value (shorter hours etc.) for more and more money and perks.
    This also explains our lackluster education system that someone else nominated and is a factor in our unkempt hospitals.

  34. I voted for Rick Mercer
    he’s got to be the most unfunny comedian on the planet
    but he’s short, gay and liberal so they gave him a show
    to find fault with everything conservative and Mercer hates conservatives
    because they don’t promote the gay agenda of the political left

  36. So now that we have a mediocre list going – the over-rated average ‘joes’ (no pun intended), we also need a list of under-rated who are considered mediocre.
    Can’t hink of a current example, but I can think of one from 70-80s hockey. Bernie Federko of the St Loius Blues was a high scorer / top ten for several seasons, but he wasn’t really noticed by the sports media because Gretzky overshadowed everyone, and he played for a (dare I say it?) mediocre US team.

  37. Anyone else remember The Poppy Family/Terry and Susan Jacks? Now there was cringe-inducing mediocrity at its finest.

  38. Joe Clark, John Chretien, Paul Martin, Stupid Dion, Steven Harper – mediocrity at its worst.

  40. If Buzz was on the right track, I hope someone would quickly tie him down to it 🙂

  41. Pfft!
    Come on, get with it guys…
    BARENAKED LADIES.
    If i had a million dollars i’d buy you a K-Car

  43. How about Anne Murray? I remember having to sit through her Christmas variety show specials, and even at a tender age realized that everything from the CBC felt…the same. Wayne and Shuster, King of Kensington, Tommy Hunter, HNIC between period “hot stove” discussions…all so vanilla.

  44. the reason that Canadian culture is so mediocre is because it is controlled by the state
    the government has no business being involved in the creation of culture
    in Canada $7.5 billion is spent on “culture” every year
    tax dollars administered by liberal bureaucrats in an effort to shape attitudes and opinions
    the result is a culture of film and television which is unwatchable
    this is why television ratings in Canada are at historic lows
    and why nobody will pay to see a Canadian film
    Canadian liberal bureaucrats are exclusively to blame for our culture of mediocrity

  45. “Plus, he was so mediocre that no one would be motivated in the slightest to vote for him.”
    EBD@643pm
    hahaha. And I used that for my choice–DaltonMcmediocre

  46. Elwood Glover, the boy from Carmel and Moose Jaw, Sask., can’t be named among the mediocre Canadians and neither can Tommy Hunter, or Wayne & Shuster; nor, for that matter, Peter Mansbridge and Anne whats-her-name.
    As Elwood said:
    “I’d like to be a more colourful person, but I haven’t the makeup for it.”
    Bland and mediocre are not necessarily the same or all Canadians (except Don Cherry) would have to be on the list.

  47. Unfortunately, Hector B. at July 3, 2008 9:35 AM, summed up the problem of today’s prevailing thought in the political spectrum.

  48. William Shatner
    I don’t believe that mediocrity is a one shot thing – it’s a life’s work. It is merely a point, passed through rapidly between the extremes, for those that are truly mediocre.
    Bunged up?

  50. Gordon Campbell, Dion’s right hand man on the left coast, because a liberal is a liberal is a liberal.

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