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Nominate your 2019 Scumbag of the Year

It’s that time of year again when we gather round the fire with family, friends and co-workers and share our stories about the boss.

We continue Rankandfile.ca’s annual tradition of nominating and voting for Scumbag of the Year.

We are giving out two awards in 2019, one for the private sector, one for the public sector.

The Rules

  1. In the comment section below, let us know who you think are the year’s worst bosses, scumbag politicians, and right-wing hacks. There are too many of these around the world, so we’re limiting it to scumbags in Canada.
  2. Tell us why they deserve to Scumbag of the Year. Last day for nominations is Boxing Day December 26.
  3. Nominees will be published and voting begins December 26. Rankandfile.ca can then vote for their nominees. Winners will be announced New Year’s Day.

Past Winners

2018
Ron Joyce Jr. and Jeri-Lynn Horton-Royce, Heirs of the Tim Hortons fortune and TH franchise owners
Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario
2017
Galen Weston Jr., President and CEO of Loblaw
2016
Mark Lever, President and CEO of the Halifax Herald Ltd
2015
Deepak Chopra, Canada Post CEO
2014
Stephen McNeil, Premier of Nova Scotia
2013
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Ministers of Education Stephen Lecce and Lisa Thompson. Both are terrible in their own special way, but both have collectively screwed the public education system

    • Linda Knight
      CARE PARTNERS
      This company doesnt even come close to paying their dedicated workers a living wage. No raise for 6 years and zero paid sick days for workers that work with sick people every day

      • Linda knight ceo careless partners,she doesn’t want her employee’s to make a living wage, health care workers that have zero sick days ,lowest paid psws in the industry.

    • Canada Post. Despite the highest injury rates in Canada they refuse to negotiate a fair contract and just walked away from the table..again.

  2. Doug Ford (again).

    It’s a special kind of asshole who cuts funding for autism and special needs. Getting booed at the Special Olympics was the icing on the cake.

  3. Scott Banda CEO of Federated Cooperatives Limited (FCL) in n Saskatoon. Had 2 strikes and one ongoing lockout of Refinery workers in Regina

    • Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario for all his cutting of public services we rely on!

    • I second Linda Knight, CEO Carepartners

      We fought 6 years ago to get a wage enhancement from the government. Now she wants to pocket that money…we deserve better pay and respect. Homecare should not be for profit off the sick and ederly

  8. Without question, Linda Knight of CarePartners and Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario

    • Rather than paying a living wage to it’s certified and skilled healthcare staff, CP is recruiting untrained workers and untrained immigrants for a lesser wage. With 11 days of training they are being shimmied into position to care for our most vulnerable senior population while deterring those who are trained professionals with years of experience. There is no PSW crisis…merely a neglect by companies such as Carepartners to recognize the worth of it’s employees and provide them a decent living.

  10. Public Sector : Jason Kenney for public sector layoffs with dishonourable mentions to Stephen Lecce for education cuts and bad faith bargaining with OSSTF and Doug Ford for giving ministers a 14% pay hike while freezing public sector wages at 1%

    Private Sector : Northern Pulp for delaying 5 years to clean up the dumping of pollution into a First Nations territory and then, when faced with the deadline, closing the plant and shaming the government and indigenous community for insisting that they obey the law and stop poisoning people.

    • Definitely Jason Kenney. Cheated to be the leader of the party, lied during campaign, paid off corporate buddies, decimating public service, broke unions contracts, does not listen to the people. All round scumbag.

  12. Linda Knight- CEO of CarePartners. Instead of negotiating a fair collective agreement for Health Care employees she instead decides to lock out their employees for SIX MONTHS and refuse to negotiate. Linda Knight has refused to negotiate and show up at the table for three different bargaining agents just in 2019 alone! The worst part of this is that CarePartners is funded by our tax dollars!

  13. WORST BOSS 2019 is CarePartners CEO Linda Knight!

    These contract negotiations make me want to THROW UP. Your greed knows no bounds, learn to appreciate your workers! SHAME SHAME SHAME

    #stuckinthepast

  14. Doug Ford. For ruining education and healthcare in Ontario, effectively making it even worse to live here.

    • Linda Knight, CEO of CarePartners. She expects her front-line workers to work 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for low wages, no benefits, no pension, no paid sick days caring for our sick and vulnerable people. These services are funded by our tax dollars. She runs a for-profit business which to her means that her staff are not looked after, so she has more of these dollars going to her coffers! Despicable!!!

  17. One of the worst companies I have worked for to treat their employees like shit. She should get up oFf her ass and come and come out and do the job. She wouldn’t last a week. She refuses to give us a wage increase and so one..when she travels to other countries maybe she should stay there.

  19. Linda Knoght CEO of CarePartners. Making its employees pay and benefits to a bare minimum, and expecting them to lovingly care for our elderly and vulnerable

  20. Linda Knight Carepartners! Treats her employees poorly, no raise in 6 years!

  21. Owner of Fiera Foods Boris Serebryany due to deaths of employees in his plants is the biggest scumbag I can think of.

  22. I second Linda Knight, CEO Carepartners

    We fought 6 years ago to get a wage enhancement from the government. Now she wants to pocket that money…we deserve better pay and respect. Homecare should not be for profit off the sick and ederly

    • Exactly Theresa Action Psws wages are frozen at 19.00 unless the caps are removed we will lose out on the enchancment oh wait maybe that’s her own intention to do is like Theresa said to pocket the money that was promised to us..

  23. Boris Serebryany, CEO of Fierra Foods, for his complicity in and criminal indifference toward the deaths of 5 temp agency workers at his facilities.

  24. Linda Knight Carepartners CEO
    Refuses to properly compensate workers for travel in Homecare, holidays denied, two tier pay scale new hires are frozen as well as 40% of the workers at a higher rate but also frozen, refuses to meet with workers or bargaining committee, threatened lockout, workers are fearful, low hours, benefits are lost if you don’t average 25 hours a week so many have no benefits and pay the larger portion of the benefit

  25. Neil Fassina is the president of Athabasca University. Despite a large operating surplus, Fassina forced wage freezes on employees again last year and is seeking rollbacks this year. He also jacked student tuition by 7% and has moved dozens of jobs out of the small town where the university is based (and is the largest employer). Just before Christmas, he proposed replacing a 35-year policy in order to remove 67% of employees from the faculty association just before bargaining begins.

    • Seconded on Neil Fassina. He’s accomplished nothing during his tenure as President and the staff are furious with being constantly treated with contempt. As well, he’s been engaging in a strategic withdrawl from the University’s headquarters in Athabasca and lying about it the entire time like it isn’t happening and the large job losses are just made up. Millions of dollars have been lost from a small town in violation of his own university’s mandate.

  26. Boris Serebryany, CEO of Fierra Foods & Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario.

  28. Jerry Dias, President of Unifor.

    This year was a busy one for Jerry. He tore the CLC apart so he could raid international unions, served as a lap dog for the Liberals and continued championing the USMC free trade agreement that has undermined the entire working class.

    He ran a phony PR campaign against GM for leaving Oshawa and swept the legs out from militant rank and file action, all while serving up blustering platitudes to maintain the appearance of a working class fighter.

    Jerry’s gross mismanagement of the largest private sector union in the county has been an absolute gift to corporations, who could never have sold their neoliberal agendas to workers without him.

  31. I’d like to say Northern Pulp but with two winners from Nova Scotia already it’s kind of embarrassing.

    How about the province of Quebec for their treatment of any public sector worker who wears religious clothing?

    Jason Kenney or Doug Ford (again) for their massive cuts and layoffs.

    Galen Weston…do I need to list the reasons?

  33. Charles Brown, CEO of LifeLabs. Besides it’s anti-worker actions, LifeLabs was also breached by ransomware exposing the personal information of 15 million Canadians

  35. Its no surprise after reading all the comments that Linda Knight of CarePartners has been nominated several times. This employer is by far the worst out there in the homecare industry. PSW’s are leaving by the hundreds not only because they are making $16.50 an hour ( one of the lowest in the industry) but with the amount of health and safety issues, lack of proper travel compensation and generally no respect for front line staff, Linda Knight has shown how little she cares about those who care. Shame on Linda Knight of CarePartners, while you make money off of tax payers as CP is a for-profit company, PSW AND CLIENTS are impacted everyday by the terrible working conditions.
    I hope you win this award Linda, and I hope the members of CarePartners wins a fair deal.

  36. Linda Knight ceo CarePartners
    Wont grant psws a proper wage increase. More money for mileage. Better benefits at a lower cost better healrh n safety. Sick days that are paid

  37. Linda Knight, CEO of CarePartners. She pays her PSWs poverty wages and now there is a retention crisis that is leading to seniors not getting the care they need. To top it all off, just weeks before Christmas she moved toward locking the workers out, threatening the holidays for both the workers and the thousands of seniors they care for. If that isn’t the definition of a scum bag, I don’t know what is. “Bah Humbug” – Linda Knight, probably

  38. Linda Knight, CEO of CarePartners. CarePartners is a homecare company that takes in millions in profits while locking out its workers in Sudbury until finally laying them all off. They are also threatening to lockout over 2000 SEIU Healthcare members, who already earn poverty wages.

  39. Linda Knight, CEO for Care Partners has been beyond the pale for some time now.

  40. Jason Kenney, AB Premier, because the policies he’s passed have done nothing but cripple Alberta’s economy, cause layoffs, and target the most vulnerable members of society while giving a tax break to wealthy corporations. He tore up the city charters for Calgary and Edmonton, downloading provincial debt onto the municipalities that cannot bear it.

    Adriana LeGrange, Minister of Education (AB), because to justify the funding cuts they leveled on our education system halfway through the year, she’s targeted the school boards to blame them for the $164 million she cut from their budgets. They’re scrambling to get their fiscal houses in order by firing teachers, because the UCP refused to give them a budget before the school year started.

    Matt Wolf, Press Secretary for the UCP, because he’s being paid with our tax dollars to attack private citizens on social media over their political views, particularly women, and implicitly encouraging his following to go after them with even more vitriol and threats. He’s unprofessional in the extreme and does not deserve to be paid with public money to spread hate.

  42. Worst Employer, Canada Post Corporation for consistently denying equity for workers, deliberately delaying arbitrated hearings for a CUPW contract that expired December 31, 2018 and denying Health & Safety concerns for Federal Crown Corporation employees, while rewarding bully-tactics and overburdening by management with bonus incentives.
    Worst Politician, Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario. Deliberately dismissing Auditor General reports of fiscal mismanagement, lack of oversight and unaccountable practices to ensure his corporate sponsors and friends receive ongoing favour from government agencies. Limiting working Ontarians’ ability to sustain themselves in capping the minimum wage, reducing funding and eliminating necessary educational supports.
    All while receiving the majority of his political support from Rural Ontario, he deliberately channels all initiatives into the major urban centres and champions a “casino” economy as a viable revenue stream. Even as his OLG staff sits negligent, overpaid and actually reducing profit.

  43. Gilbert Ledressay he is the VP of refining at the coop refinery in Regina who locked our 750 employees 2 weeks before Christmas because wouldn’t accept massive concessions (17%+) during the most profitable period in the company’s history.

  44. Ford Oligarchy. Con MPPs are either frightened of Ford’s bullying or they are stupid to put up with his whims

  48. Premier Scott Moe & the Saskatchewan Party Government.
    Gave them self a 2.3% wage increase to cover cost of living but said the rest of the public sector didn’t deserve the same. Scotty also thought it was appropriate to leave the country for a couple weeks while 7 crown corporations in his province were on strike against him.

  49. Linda Knight CEO CarePartners
    She only cares about profits. Her clients and workers don’t mean anything to her.

  50. Canada Post, workers are going on 2 years without a contract, the corporation delayed arbitration, again.

  51. Scott Banda from FCL. Company making billions that’s placed two cities retail workers on strike, lost all of Calgary coop, closed Calgary warehouse costing hundreds of jobs and now has 720 employees at the refinery locked out in an effort to completely hit their pension in the name of sustainability. To be equally shared with Gill LaDresaay his puppet

  52. CEO of Coop , Scott Banda , for the Saskatoon coop stores on strike, gas stations , Moose Jaw strikes , losing all the grocery stores in Calgary, locking out close to 800 people from the refinery at CHRISTMAS!! Because they don’t want to sign a deal that guts their pensions after promising never to touch the pensions .

  53. The UCP of Canada too scum bags of 2019 the whole party is a bunch dirt bags doesn’t matter which province

    • UCP party in Alberta certainly are scum bags. It’s all about their egos and deceiving Albertans to get into power. Now even more people are unemployed we have even less services resulting in bigger problems for this province.

  54. Don Cherry. A departure from bosses and politicians, but worthy of the award. He is an ignorant, xenophobic, and petulant egomaniac who has long derided everything progressive and forward-thinking in Canada.

  55. Linda Knight
    CarePartners
    She has been nominated so many times and many comments have been provided explaining why. So, o don’t need to get into it….already laid out.

  56. Doug Ford and Jason Kenny Conservative governments. Because if their false for the people policies that serves only corporations and the wealthy

  57. Linda Knight CEO Care-Partners.
    No raise in 6 yrs. no paid sick days. Failure to negotiate Her new tactic is to pit employees against each other by creating 2 wage scales

  58. Linda Knight CEO of Carepartners.

    Less then livable work wages, no respect for frontline workers, she gets richer off the backs of workers. SHAME

  59. PSW
    Linda Knight care partners! Wish we were paid a 1/4 of her salary! Instead we make not much more then minimum wage! Home care is essential!

  60. Neil Fassina, President of Athabasca University. Even with the university in surplus he raised tuition 7%. He continues to treat employees like crap. He’s the president of crappy things.

  62. Linda Knight. CEO of Carepartners. For deliberate neglect and bad practices in negotiation of new contract with SEIU.

  63. Jason Kenney
    Kenney has taken control of public sector pensions; has ensured that educational funding does not keep pace with increases in enrolment; has cut grants that help to control class size; has cut grants that keep school fees low; has cut monies allocated for educational assistants; has cut funding to nurses by $100 million; has ensured that 46, 000 people lose drug coverage; cut ambulance services by $11 million; cut upkeep and new build funding for hospitals; has made a list of cuts so long, I can’t keep going. I guess some of his cuts are good for the top 1%: corporate tax cuts to the tune of $4.7 million (so far) that have resulted in the loss of 27, 000 jobs.

    • All in the name of getting people back to work. Not sure who they think they are fooling. We need to find a way to get rid of the UCP fast. They certainly have made the NDP party look good in comparison.

  64. Doug Ford, spending 231 million to DISMANTLE green energy projects in a climate emergency. WTF.

  65. Western Forest Products in B.C. Such assholes. They have been in a labour dispute with their employees since July. They are cut throat and are not willing to negotiate a fair deal. They want to contract out and have their employees work terrible shifts leaving no family life. Some of their workers are losing their homes and will have no Christmas while they sit on their millions

  66. Linda knight if Care partners, not treating her employees fairly. No sick days no pay increases in 6 years no pension, not a proper Benifits for all employees

  69. Scott Moe, Premier of Sask. Cuts a very successful home solar program rather than just adjusting the metering system. Proposes 40 Modular nuclear reactors instead that would cost the province $120 billion, far beyond our GDP. Cuts to social assistance, housing supplements for people with disabilities, cuts to legal aid parameters, takes over authority over Wascana park to allow business to chop down 110 trees..destroying habitat and undermining the integrity and beauty of Regina’s only attractive area, its parks. Refuses to include the carbon tax just to be ornery, no action on carbon emissions reduction. Does nothing on Climate Crisis.

  70. Andrew Scheer
    Scott Moe
    Brad Wall
    Jason Kenney
    Doug Ford
    Greg Ottenbreit
    Warren Kaeding
    Scott Banga
    Ruining people’s life’s and economy every day. Corruption, slander, sabotage, dirty money, lies, theft, abusive, selfish, hate, scandals, traitors, no compassion, anti christ lovers, no respect, deny promises, hurting people, silence people, manipulation, sexism, male chauvinist, payments for jobs done, selling our crowns that make us money, killing education to dumb people up, dirty money to buy media.

  72. I nominate New Brunswick’s premier Blaine Higgs for the scumbag of the year award 2019. He’d rather waste tax payers money on court proceedings, and threats of elections than paying the nursing home workers what they deserve a fair cost of living pay increase.

  73. I nominate Blaine Higgs
    Premier of New Brunswick
    He’s the grinch .. Unfair to nursing home workers

  74. Linda Knight CEO Carepartners
    Puts PSWs and our elderly’s safety and welfare at risk because of greed.

  75. Blaine Higgs premier of New Brunswick for his blatant disregard for the senoirs of the province and those who care for them.

  76. Sam Oosterhoff – MPP for Niagara West. This dingdong called the police on a group of grandmothers who were protesting his library cuts with “read in.” He’s also anti-2SLGBTQIA+ and a misogynist (but that shit seems to be pretty par for the conservative course right now…)

  78. David Albert and Alex Paterson, managing director and head of rider management (respectively) of Foodora Canada. Nominated for their consistent opposition to Foodora couriers’ union local certification and for firing, or threatening to fire, two of the union’s organizers.

  79. I nominate premier Blaine Higgs for what he is doing to us nursing home workers and not listening to us our residents or their families shame on him

  80. David Albert, CEO Foodora, Canada’s own gig economy appsploitation union-busting techbro

  82. David Albert -CEO of Foodora Canada.

    Albert has spent the past year fighting employee unionization, stating gig economy workers are not entitled to a minimum wage, reducing employees who associate with the union’s hours so they can’t pay rent and locking the doors to the office when Foodora workers have a complaint they want to take up with the office.

  83. The worst scumbag political it’s a tie between Premier Blaine Higgs PC and Chris Austin PA … Let me start with Blaine our Premier first He is a Union Busting.. Irving Man …and trying to micromanage his way in the Legislature here in NB.. While using the poisonous pen he just wrote Bill 17.. picking on Nursing Home workers (female Dominated) restricting them of a Fair Bargaining process and a Deal that would help with recruitment and retention..We are in a Crisis and Higg’s is taking the approach Take it or Leave it!!! Mocking us and showing No respect for the caregivers who care for our most vulnerable citizens in our society Our Seniors.. We now will move to Austin .. The Leader of the People’s Alliance .. turning his back on NH workers, and doing Higg’s biding ..This party stood with the NH workers in May supporting us in a motion and then just on Dec 20th showed His True Colors ..If I were to give u a visual of How crazy this situation is here in NB picture Mr Burns and Smithers..running the NB legislature this is what the two remind me of Higgs- Mr Burns and Austin- Smithers..

  84. Theres a bunch to choose from but Linda Knight, the CEO of Carepartners takes the cake. Making profits off the backs of her workers. no sick days, no pension and barely-there benefits that they take away if they don’t give you enough hours. Keeping their PSWs as vulnerable and the people they care for.

  85. I am nominating Blaine Higgs…he just stabbed union workers in the back with his bill 17

  86. Premier Blaine Higgs for his unfair treatment of nursing home workers in new Brunswick

  88. Don Demens CEO Western Forest Products. Continually refuses to agree to safe working conditions for thousands of coastal forestry workers.

  89. Pallister. His slashing of health care has done a number on our community. Failing to respond to the meth epidemic has cost lives, that may have been saved if we still had ERs.

  91. Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta, for trying to be first in the race to the bottom

  92. Jason Kenney for creating a 30 million dollar war room , that has no accountability to anyone but him .

  93. Jason Kenney, for being the biggest corporate sycophant in Canada. He committed election fraud in the UCP leadership race. He created a party of homophobes and racists committed to destroying public services in Alberta, so he could hand $4.7 billion in tax cuts to the rich once he was elected. He attacked public education and health care, destroying thousands of jobs in his first year. His party employs online trolls such as Matt Wolf to attack private citizens who criticize the UCP or the oil & gas industry. Kenney is an authoritarian, a religious fundamentalist, and an enemy of working people everywhere.

  95. Jason Kenney deserves a special nomination for slashing public services after promising he wouldn’t.

  96. Jason Kenney Premier of Alberta, scum bag breaking promises, trying to break unions.

    Dr. Verna Yiu, president and ceo of AHS. She has the power to help save jobs, yet she is not. She is too greedy and wants to keep her over 500k a year salary.

  98. Jason Kenney. Tax break for rich corporations paid for by extreme austerity measures for every one else.

  100. Turdo is the worst Prime Minister Canadians have ever seen, and Notley the worst Premier. All they do is throw money away to buy favours and buy votes with no plan to recoup

  103. Without a doubt, AB Premier Jason Kenny, his attack on Public Services has been relentless, “Jobs, economy and pipelines”!

  105. Jason Kenney for cleanly and efficiently fucking over every working Albertan in the span of less than a year, and encouraging sentiment that emboldens the reactionary far-right separatist idiots.

  106. AB Premier Jason Kenney for his unapologetic constant lies, and even lies about other lies……

  107. Neil Fassina, president of Athabasca University, refused to acknowledge the mental illness of a staff who was undergoing therapy after the terminal diagnosis of his wife. They forced it through the grievance process, spent lots of money on it, and almost let it go to provincial arbitration over a year long battle.

    aufa.ca/blog/2019/12/20/difficult-sick-leave-refusal-matter-resolved

    Other notable actions include: a terrible round of bargaining while the university was rich, proposing that half the staff be removed from the union, and more.

  108. Jason Kenney – cheated his way to the top & creating panels to give his friends plum positions. He also used his mom to claim her senior living home as his address and turns around to say he was doing a favour for him mom.

  109. Jason Kenney, Alberta’s abortion of a premier. Mr “oil is the only important thing in the province, fuck the population” himself.

  110. Jason Kenney hands down. Between giving away 4.5 billion to those who DIDN’T need it, to stealing from the disabled, teachers, nurses, doctors & workers all over the province to pay for it, he’s the epitome of a scummy politician. Add in the election fraud he & his perpetrated during both the UCP leadership convention AND the provincial election, this dishonest POS deserves nothing but a prison cell for his corruption, crimes & misdemeanors.

  111. Jason Kenney He’s following Doug Fords policies. Let’s name and shame him!

  114. Jason Kenney, because he stealing money from poor people, seniors, tbe sick and differently abled. And his overall policies are just really awful and regressive.

  115. Neil Fassima, President, Athabasca University.
    Not only did he hike tuition to the max at the behest of Jason Kenney’s horrible government, while running a surplus, he is looking for wage rollbacks from professors, tutors, and support staff. Due to his lack of courage and for building a culture of group think in management ranks, he’s definitely a strong candidate for this dismal award

  117. DON DEMENS
    PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    WESTERN FOREST PRODUCTS

    For leaving 3,000 workers out on strike since July 1 and not negotiating a settlement.

  119. Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta for his tax giveaway to billion dollar corporations that the public sector workers and the poorest Albertans are being made to pay for with his dreadful cuts and threats or wage rollbacks. For wasting money on a $30 million war room (that is similar to the “Ministry of Truth” out of the pages of “1984”) that can’t even develop a logo that isn’t already in existence and, therefore, subject to copy-write laws! For not believing in. Lunate Change and for thinking that oil and gas is the only thing that matters!

  120. Rocco Rossi for flouting his wealth after getting the Ford government to cancel a raise in the minimum wage.

  121. Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta. Despite the funding cuts to healthcare, education, child and family services, Kenney’s government has also removed the rate cap on what utilities companies and insurance companies can charge. People with disabilities on AISH are affected by the cuts, as Kenney’s government deindexed AISH, and will be imposing cuts on AISH recipients.

    People are losing jobs, despite oil companies getting billions in tax breaks and handouts. (Some of them are even leaving Canada.)

    Important grants to nonprofits are being cut. Kenney has spent more than $30 million in public dollars to fund the “Canadian Energy Centre”, better known as “The War Room”for reacting to and correcting perceived misinformation on the province’s energy industry. Kenney is still under investigation for his underhanded tactics to win the leadership race in 2017 and has fired the man in charge of that investigation.

    There is no one unaffected by this man and his party’s corruption. When even the oil companies are fleeing Alberta like rats from a sinking ship, you know there’s a problem!

  122. Jason Kenney hands down. No concern whatsoever for the vulnerable or the lower income people of Alberta, public sector, seniors etc etc. He is in it for his rich friends. He is supposed to work for Albertans. Instead he just steals from them.

  123. Jason Kenney
    Premier of Alberta. Breaking his election promises to the province. Cutting front line workers in an era of crisis, cutting budgets in healthcare and education and lying to the province.

  124. Jason Kenney–every few days, a new Unconscionable Condescending Pigs announcement is made about yet another public service, or group/ agency representing our most vulnerable citizens is receiving a funding slash. This government dislikes nurses, educators, people concerned about the environment, those who believe in social justice, people from the LGBTQ2 community, union members, seniors/elderly, students….well, as you can see, just about everyone except those in the oil and gas sector who get the big tax credits. Now, every Albertan will suffer.

  125. Jason Kenney gave $4.7 Billion to corporations who left Alberta. Cuts to education and healthcare hurt Albertans.

  126. Jason Kenney for screwing everything in Alberta. This guy has done more damage than a tornado in a trailer park. Time to elect him for something he is truly deserving- loser of the year and so many others.

  127. Hands down – Jason Kenny for signing the Health Care Commitment in large Sharpie to maintain or exceed current funding only to cut funds as soon as the Federal election was over. Liar!

  128. Faith Goldie, Andrew MacLeod, Ezra Levant, Jeff Ballingall, Steven Harper, Scott Hayward, Lynn Beyak, Simon Jolin-Barrette, Jason Clemens … etc etc etc etc

    Because I find it disingenuous to claim that people like Ford and Kenney are the worst while simultaneously ignoring the engineers who are attempting – and succeeding – to reshape Canadian Politics, using Populism, Austerity and Xenophobia. These “Elitist” Canadian Hatemongers have emboldened those who are racist and caused an increase in violence against minorities indigenous persons and women. Canadians have civil and human rights laws, which are both federal and provincial. To override those rights encourages others to ignore those same rights. It is completely unacceptable. It is equally unacceptable that they never made this list. Is it any wonder that religious/ cultural groups, the disabled and new Canadians are experiencing hatred from both the government and fellow ‘so-called’ Canadians?

  129. Jason Kenney promised “jobs” “the economy” and “pipelines” 30,000 jobs lost, economy is tanking, massive layoffs in the public sector, 4.5 bullion dollar handout to billionaires, cuts to public education, increased funding to private schools, only pipeline going in is the one the previous government got approved, cutting funding to AISH, 30 million dollar taxpayer funded “war room” that Albertans are not allowed to know about, and the list goes on and on and on and on!

  130. Jason Kenney, hands down.
    Cheated his way into UCP leadership. Lied about no cuts to public services & is bent on destroying Alberta economy.

  131. Jason Kenney for numerous reasons. But to summarize, he is ruining Alberta.

  135. Don demens from western forest products and his bargaining committee they are nothing but greedy monsters that could care less about their employees.

  136. Worst boss – The CEO of Husky Energy, who took Albertan’s tax dollars, and still killed over 800 jobs.

    Worst politician – a 3 way tie between Jason Kenney, Jason Nixon, and Adriana Lagrange, for being pieces of shit that are harming every Albertan.

    Worst right wing hack – Jordan Peterson, for talking shit about drug addiction and socialism, two topics he knows nothing about, just to end up using socialist medicine to help for drug addiction! Fuck him and all the brainwashing he has done to a generation.

  137. Linda Knight of Carepartners. Have seen increased wages of the CEO and other top management employees but what about the front line workers. PSWs are paid horrible, meant to travel by using own vehicle and get “pennies” to help support their families and this is not everything front line workers suffer from. I nominate Linda Knight as the worst!!!

  138. Don Demens CE O of Western Forest Co. for giving himself a 30% wage increase on over $ 2 million and demanding concessions on Forest Workers Contract negocations

  139. Linda Eirikson, the most corrupt, deceitful and evil individual that could exist. She directs her staff to kidnap children, subject them to severe alienation/mental abuse and she takes great pride causing kids to have mental breakdowns, severe PTSD and destroying every aspect of children’s well being, and families.

    • For reference, Linda Eirikson is the manager of the South Calgary Office of Children and Family Services. So many children and families have been destroyed by this demon in a human body. Many families have reached out to Minister Schultz and she does nothing, which is why the corruption, deceit and abuse continues. Another waste of skin like Kenney.

  140. Sam Oosterhoff, Conservative MPP from Ontario, who has devoted his life to making abortion unthinkable.

    • Seconding this so hard. This is also the guy who called the cops on a bunch of seniors who were protesting his library cuts by having a “read-in.”

  142. I nominate Scott Banda, CEO of Federated Cooperatives Limited (FCL) who locked out 800 refinery workers just weeks before Christmas. Workers and their families deserve to be enjoying the holidays, not freezing on frigid picket lines in Regina. Shame on greedy Co-op Refinery for abandoning their cooperative values and betraying loyal workers.

  143. Scott banda – the genius whose trying to take a profitable cooperative and turn it into a failing corporation. Just like he messed up and failed his attempt to lead the ndp. Enough of a scumbag that he had to pay a disgraced professor to write a book about himself cause nobody else would say anything nice about him.

  144. Jason Kenney UCP Party leader and NOT my Premier! He is a bonafide Scumbag due to all the unnecessary cuts to Alberta Public Services, Healthcare etc! He gave private corporations a for his $4.7-billion no-jobs corporate giveaway.
    UCP has forceed every single Albertan to pay for his $4.7-billion no-jobs corporate giveaway.

    This budget will extract more in personal income taxes from every Albertan by disconnecting the tax code from inflation. This is a shocking betrayal of Jason Kenney’s central campaign promise.

  145. Scott Banda, for ruining Christmas for hundreds of people based on his greed.

  146. Alberta UCP Labour Minister Jason Copping – rolling back all the worker protections brought in by the former NDP government, from minimum wages to farm worker safety!

  147. Scott Banda, Chief Executive Officer of Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), a position he has held since February 2010.
    Mr. Banda has decided to throw aside the co-operative values and integrity of the Co-op Retailing System and change the company into a money-fueled, power-hungry corporation. In 2018, the Refinery achieved record profits of $1.1 Billion, in 2019, the Refinery achieved 2nd highest profits in the 80-year history of $959 million. With all that cash to do with what they wanted, FCL decided to; 1. Put 400 Moose Jaw Co-op workers on the picket line for over a month to force two-tier wages. 2. Put the 900 Saskatoon Co-op workers on a 5.5-month strike ending in April 2019 to force two-tier wages. 2. In August 2019, Calgary Co-op announced it would start sourcing its food from competitor Save-On-Foods instead of FCL in the spring. In response, FCL closed its Calgary food distribution warehouse and will lay off the 200-plus employees who work there, effective in April 2020. 3. Dec 5th, the FCL refinery in Regina locked out it’s 730 workers to gut their pension and roll back other benefits. Those members are still on the line over Christmas. This is not how the CEO of a cooperative should behave.

  148. Canada post management
    They r constantly guilty of harassment and bullying yet nvr held accountable, and they expect us to believe they aren’t trained to be that way….

  149. Hands down Linda knight ceo of carepartners takes the cake!!! Getting rich off the backs of her hard working frontline staff!!
    No pay increase in six yrs and poverty wages.. No pension plan 0 sick days and the list goes on and on.
    Sickening!!!

  150. JASON KENNEY
    Alberta premiere who stole Christmas by means of giving rich companies 4.7billoin dollars and how he pays for it is by privatizing health, cutting frontline workers, deindexing Aish (disability assured income), taking CPP from teachers, changing and axing programs for kids seniors and disabled people, hiking taxes insurance, making min wage less for those under 17, if kids go to a GSA parents will be notified, 25$ daycare gone, funding for arts and film capped big time, funding for energy and new jobs that diversify Alberta canceled and most shut down, seniors kicked off health benefits and have threat of pensions being taken and put into AIMCO to pay for oil pipelines, cutting services to police and courts, killing democracy by changing laws to where people have little say when it comes to fair bargaining or free speech, bigger class sizes and less help for disabled kids, the so-called war room, allowing for party to live in luxury when traveling on taxpayers dime, university/collage tuision programs cut thus students having to pay more and instuctors laid off due to changes thus education for many nonexessable, and the list goes on…….

  151. Jason Kenney for slashing education and healthcare, deindexing Aish, spending thirty million on a war room and lying.

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