I was listening to Ontario Today on CBC Radio One at the day-job this afternoon, and Michael Bliss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bliss) of the Canadian Historical Society - publishers of The Beaver and backers of this particular debate/opinion poll - was interviewed in order to explain the project. His off-hand suggestion, if we're going to invoke such people of that bent as candidates for the title of the Worst Canadian, was Clifford Olson.
Being a historian, however, Bliss had a couple of other candidates in mind: Lord Beaverbrook being one, and another being whoever it was in the British government a couple of centuries back that came up with the "smallpox blankets" scheme of genocidal infamy.
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:47 pm (UTC)Being a historian, however, Bliss had a couple of other candidates in mind: Lord Beaverbrook being one, and another being whoever it was in the British government a couple of centuries back that came up with the "smallpox blankets" scheme of genocidal infamy.