Thought this link might spark some chat. Who would you pick as the worst Canadian? And why?
http://www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp?subsection=ext&page=WC
http://www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp?subsection=ext&page=WC
Who's the worst Canadian?
- Thread starter karrie
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This is easy.. Mulroney for his pro-American policies and attempts to dismantle our country by bringing us into even more of a servitude position with the yankees.
After the fall of Hong Kong and the capture of 2500 Canadians, many of the prisoners were shipped to a camp in Japan. One of the Japanese Sergeants had been brought up in BC, and had returned to Japan just before the war. He tortured, murdered, and made the lives of the Canadians miserable.......no doubt in revenge for the racism he had suffered.....but WHO CARES?
The story has an appropriate ending. This guy was so bad that after the war he was tried for war crimes. As a non-commissioned officer, the maximum sentence would have been 10 years. His defense? (with consultation with his lawyer) As a Canadian citizen, he could not be tried for Japanese war crimes. The tribunal agreed........and shipped him straight to Canada, where he was tried for treason, convicted, and hanged.
Justice done.
Talk about reason to fire your lawyer!
Now, where are those Khadrs?
The story has an appropriate ending. This guy was so bad that after the war he was tried for war crimes. As a non-commissioned officer, the maximum sentence would have been 10 years. His defense? (with consultation with his lawyer) As a Canadian citizen, he could not be tried for Japanese war crimes. The tribunal agreed........and shipped him straight to Canada, where he was tried for treason, convicted, and hanged.
Justice done.
Talk about reason to fire your lawyer!
Now, where are those Khadrs?
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briam mulgoony
Why they named a town in Canada after him, I'll never know! But, without him, would we still have a town called Moosejaw?
Why they named a town in Canada after him, I'll never know! But, without him, would we still have a town called Moosejaw?
Colpy / Dirtylinder - do you have his name?
Is there anything I can read about this guy? I've never heard the story before.
Is there anything I can read about this guy? I've never heard the story before.
[FONT=Times, serif]Kamloops or Kamloops Kid, was Kanao Inouye, he was personally responsible for the deaths of eight Canadian soldiers held as prisoners. At the end of the war he was imprisoned for war crimes and this created quite a problem for the Canadian Government. Kanao Inouye was a Canadian citizen and there is no provision in the Canadian government to execute one of its own citizens for war crimes. However, Kanao Inouye was tried for treason and executed.[/FONT]
Colpy: I remember the story about that guy, but can't remember his name. Wish you hadn't mentioned it, because now I'm getting the urge to look back into the histories of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, and Royal Rifles of Canada. If my memory serves me right, they used to derisively call him the "Canadian kid". I do know for certain, he wasn't named Moosejaw, sorry Curiosity, you got fished.
Harold Ballard was pretty bad. What about Nickleback, the whole band but mainly the lead singer. Hideous.:x
Colpy
I had just read about this character. Before the reading, I only had a vague recollection of these events.
Able
I am an expert one-finger typist. Sometimes, by the time I finish my reply, I can't find the topic...:lol:
lol I know what you mean..................................................why was I laughing?
I considered Pickton too. Obviously, he's fresh in my mind (especially since we talked about him yesterday, AND he was mentioned on CSI last night). He stands out as a horrible human. But is he a bad Canadian? What constitutes being a bad Canadian? I felt perhaps the survey was looking for the person who's most damaged our image or culture. Pickton didn't really do that. But I'm at a loss for naming any one person.
My third choice would have been Mulroney, who ran our debt up to half a trillion dollars. The approximately $35 billion in annual interest charges has handcuffed every Canadian government since.