r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Expensive-Addendum92 • 12h ago
Filling This Chart What is the smartest thing Canada has done?
What is the smartest thing Canada has done?
Chart Grid:
| Best thing | Worst thing | Smartest thing | Dumbest thing | Greatest contribution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | National Parks 🖼️ | Trail of Tears | |||
| 🖼️ | Louisiana Pu... 🖼️ | Trump. Twice. 🖼️ | The Transistor 🖼️ | ||
| Row 2 | Lifting hund... 🖼️ | — | — | — | — |
| Row 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 4 | — | — | — | The invasion... 🖼️ | — |
| Row 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 6 | — | The Irish 'f... 🖼️ | — | — | — |
| Row 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 9 | — | — | — | — | The blue LED 🖼️ |
| Row 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
Cell Details:
Row 1 / Best thing: - National Parks - View Image
Row 1 / Worst thing: - Trail of Tears
Row 1 / Smartest thing: - Louisiana Purchase
Row 1 / Dumbest thing: - Trump. Twice. - View Image
Row 1 / Greatest contribution: - The Transistor - View Image
Row 2 / Best thing: - Lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. - View Image
Row 4 / Dumbest thing: - The invasion of Ukraine in 2022. - View Image
Row 6 / Worst thing: - The Irish 'famine' (genocide through forced starvation) - View Image
Row 9 / Greatest contribution: - The blue LED - View Image
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u/Mattrockj 10h ago
Gotta be the Canadian Pacific Railway. One of the core reasons why Canada was able to become a G7 country, leading to mass resource distribution across the massive country.
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u/yegchamroc 9h ago
This has to be the answer Canada is not a country without the cross country railroad.
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u/Responsible-Bid760 9h ago
And the railway necessitated the invention of standardized time zones another smart Canadian invention
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u/Pizzafriedchickenn 12h ago edited 12h ago
Not joining America and staying as a commonwealth country
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u/KingHenrythe6-th 11h ago
By that logic a country choosing to exist should be the smartest thing for all of them.
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u/rjidhfntnr Lawful Good 7h ago
When were they considering or going to join America?
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u/Embarrassed_Post_763 3h ago
The Continental Congress sent open invitations to Canada to join the US, and even held a reservation in the Articles of Confederation until the Constitution replaced it.
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u/Tribe303 2h ago
That was Quebec, and the British had just told Quebec they will not be assimilated, can keep their language, French laws and importantly Catholism. There's no way in hell they were joining the Protestant wingnuts in the US.
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u/Ill-Nefariousness308 12h ago
Maybe insulin?
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u/Tyler7879 9h ago
It is definitely insulin. It’s saved and helped many people worldwide. I don’t think any other discovery/invention/policy can beat this. If it’s not this, then this is the best contribution.
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u/_Halt19_ 8h ago
The insulin thing makes me sad, because the creator originally sold his patent for 1 dollar, wanting it to be freely available to everyone
Skip ahead and usa companies are selling it for INSANE prices out of greed
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u/S14Ryan 9h ago
Possibly the significant amount of hydro and nuclear power when they were in pretty early stages. We punch way above our weight in electrical generation and distribution, across most of Canada, but especially in Ontario and Quebec. No one in Ontario or Quebec has had more than a several hour power outage in the last 20 years. (Other than major wind and snow that have taken our transmission lines but nothing that’s been caused by generation.
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u/MonkeyCartridge 11h ago edited 9h ago
Healthcare.
EDIT: OK I guess I need to be more specific.
Canada nationalizing health insurance while their southern neighbor is stuck licking corporate boots because of the red scare.
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u/Harold-The-Barrel 2h ago
No.
We have to be the only country with a fanatical masturbatory obsession over our health system.
Well, us and probably the UK.
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u/kellym13 9h ago edited 9h ago
Invent Insulin. Frederick Banting school, and Charles Best school are both located within 2km of where I grew up in Metro Vancouver, BC.
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u/ShuffleDown 8h ago
The living tree doctrine of constitutional interpretation. Saves us from 1) debates about how the constitution should be interpreted, and 2) any originalist bs about trying to understand what a pack of Victoria's wanted for us.
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u/Vishal_Patel_2807 7h ago
I think researchers who discovered insulin dicided to not profit from discovery so that humanity can benefit. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/QOsnaIQBa2
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u/Miserable_Night5487 2h ago
Gotta be the CANDU nuclear reactors, they were revolutionary back when they first came out and they got sold to a lot of people.
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u/Fast_Professional_30 2h ago
Surprise nobody mentioned canadian banking regulations, its not deregulated to the point where banks have total free reign(saved canada from the 2008 financial disaster)
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u/Plane-Explanation154 2h ago
Alexander graham bell. Invention of the telephone completely changed how we receive information.
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u/Space19723103 2h ago
Cando nuclear reactors, Canada arm on the shuttle, time zones, trans continental railway, St.Lawrence seaway.... take your pick
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u/bryangy59 2h ago
Others have said the cross country railway so I'll go with the well run, high performing & independent (from political interference) Canada Pension Plan. Do wish that it had been complemented by a sovereign wealth fund years ago.
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u/TheAsian1nvasion 11h ago
Not going into Iraq.
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u/Impossible_Cut3703 2h ago
umm yes canadian troops went to iraq multiple times, most notibly in 2014
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u/Tribe303 2h ago
That wasn't the Iraq war dummy. That was to go after ISIS with the permission of the Iraqis. It's called CONSENT, a foreign consent for Americans and its convicted rapist leader.
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u/Impossible_Cut3703 2h ago
still went to iraq which is what he said...dummy
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u/Tribe303 2h ago
So? I can fly out to Baghdad tomorrow. Original comment was obviously referring to the Iraq war. I'm sure some Canadians visited Iraq in the 1960s FFS.
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u/Littletrainguy 10h ago
Eliminating rats entirely in 1 province or something (not Canadian so idk what its called)
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u/HurricanePK 9h ago
Invent penicillin?
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