History Characters / CanadasWorstDriver

* OnlySaneMan: Steven.

* GracefulLoser: Despite being named the worst, she wasn't upset at the results, regarding her time on the well and promised to learn more outside the show.

* OnlySaneMan: Lenny. He has gotten more assertive during the offseason and is more likely to call out Lenny on his bullshit more than last time. It was amply demonstrated in a joint ConfessionCam segment after Kevin's taking the reversing challenge forwards lead to him trashing the Trans Am:

* RealityEnsues: Due to having plates in her knees, Faith-Ann could not do the tire changing challenge as it required crouching. So, Joanne did the challenge for her.

* RealityEnsues: Not towards Colin specifically, but after Andrew destroyed his keys, the show got into trouble as it counted as destruction of property. As such, future seasons afterwards would have Andrew confiscate the nominee's licenses at the start of the season.

* RealityEnsues: Since Teagan was 18 at the time of filming, he wasn't legally allowed to have a rental car, so Andrew reluctantly let him drive his own truck to rehab. Also, despite graduating, Teagan had to leave in a taxi.

* MedalOfDishonor: When she was sent home, Andrew branded her the absolute worst driver they had ever seen on the show until that point. Luckily for Donna, she would only hold that dishonour for a year... though unfortunately for her, she was evidently no longer a driver anyway by that point, making it moot.

* RealityEnsues: Since she had an angina attack in a challenge, the show couldn't keep her around out of fear she would have another one (the courses are already stressful enough). Also, Cam and Dan, as part of their professions, called their respective districts to let them know about her condition and placed her on a medical review (which judging from her angry email to the show, she lost).

* RealityEnsues: Because of Donna's shoulder problems, she wasn't allowed to accompany Brad on certain challenges that had the car rocking around a lot.

** RealityEnsues: That being said, the show sent him to an optometrist office for an eye exam, and the optometrist said he would have to contact the Ministry of Transportation about it which might put Jason's license up for review (albeit likely not with any consequences worse than simply being barred from driving without glasses).

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Episode 6 reveals that during the evenings, she would party and get drunk. RealityEnsues soon enough as she starts having dizzy spells and had to be sent to a hospital for a few days, missing two challenges along with Travis's graduation as a result.

* RealityEnsues: Subverted. The accident as stated above was thought to have caused brain damage to Shayne, and he was unable to remember some of the lessons. Andrew even told him that the show might give him medical treatment for it. In episode 7, it's revealed that he did take a [=MRI=] scan during his time in rehab, but fortunately, there was no brain damage found.

* EpicFail: Produced what Andrew and Cam agree to be the worst final drive in the show's history, which totalled up to $2100 of fines, and being oblivious to basic road signs (such as the no U-Turn sign). When you somehow pass even S9 Kevin and S12 Krystal's final drive (both of whom had their tests ended prematurely for various reasons), that's amazing.

* RealityEnsues:

* SoreLoser: Zig-zagged; at first he refused to even consider the possibility that he might be the worst, and dropped a ClusterFBomb when Andrew announced he was. After it had sunk in, however, he cut up his license with minimal fuss and honoured his promise to give up driving.

* RealityEnsues: Because of Karlene's frail state, she could not do the Trough Challenge as it was, and had to take a simpler course to get the full lesson. It was also the same frail state that prohibited her from taking the Teeter-Totter challenge.

'''Warning!''' Spoilers ahead unmarked! Note also that the cast is listed in order in each season from the worst driver named for that season going back to the first graduate. You have been warned.

** He dislikes Krystal's entitled attitude and expectation of special treatment, but routinely provides it anyway (giving her multiple attempts on the Shoulder Check challenge, standing behind her car throughout the Reverse Figure 8 to help her to use her mirrors)

* TheLancer: To Cam. It's very rare that they are on the same side of a tie. Also fitting that Philippe was a race car driver and Cam was a police officer before they came onto the show.

* SpoiledBrat: Part of the reason she was such a bad driver was that she never really had to face the consequences of accidents; her rich parents paid her obscene insurance premium and replaced her cars whenever she totaled them.

* JerkassRealization: After a few challenges, he realizes his behavior on the road was unacceptable and decided to do a 180 on his life.

* CaptainCrash: To the point where she lost count of how many cars she totaled.

** Knows a lot about car maintenance as the "Camping Challenge" (where he reconnected the car battery after Colin's clowning around knocked a cable loose) and the "Scavenger Hunt" (he was the fastest to change his flat tire) show.

* ConsolationPrize: Got a Bluetooth headset when he graduated, in order to keep him from using his cellphone at the wheel. Ironically, such headsets are themselves now considered to be just as dangerous as cellphones and have largely been supplanted by speakers and microphones built into the dashboard.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: His bad driving and bad attitude had wrecked his relationship with his nominator prior to going on the show, but they reconciled over the course of the season.

* HairTriggerTemper: Mostly it was aimed towards her husband, but she did tend to blow up at Andrew on occasion, which likely did her no favors when he got the tie-breaking vote over who was the worst for this season.

* DrunkDriver: Openly admitted that she would have several drinks while playing bingo, after which she'd drive home drunk. And her son pointed out that if anything, she was drastically ''under''stating how much she usually drinks and drives.

* MedalOfDishonor: When she was sent home, Andrew branded her the absolute worst driver they had ever seen on the show until that point. Luckily for Donna, she would only hold that dishonor for a year... though unfortunately for her, she was evidently no longer a driver anyway by that point, making it moot.

* RealityEnsues: Since she had an angina attack in a challenge, the show couldn't keep her around out of fear she would have another one (the courses are already stressful enough). Also, Cam and Dan, as part of their professions, called their respective districts to let them know about her condition and placed her on medical review (which judging from her angry email to the show, she lost).

* DrivesLikeCrazy: He actually ''street raced'' on the way to rehab, which almost got the show to be shut down! Andrew was not happy when he saw Ken pull up to rehab after finding out the incident.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Psychologist Gembora believed the behavior he exhibited is like Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

* FlawlessVictory: He's the first person ever to drive the final road test without causing any ticketable offenses, and came very close to finishing the Mega Challenge with no errors.
* HappilyMarried: Zig-zagged at first, as he treated his wife quite well most of the time, but could occasionally display behavior that was flat-out sexist, particularly in the lane change rally. As the season went on, he started behaving much more reasonably toward her, and by the end of the season, he was thankful for her nominating him.

* SignatureMove: His "thumbs up" reactions. Andrew and the remaining contestant’s lampshade this when he graduates.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Like Scott, his drive to rehab was stopped because of his speeding and generally dangerous behavior. Unlike Scott, he soon shaped up and started acting more reasonably.

* TheDogBitesBack: After seeing Scott drive stupidly, and laughing off his failures, his nominator Danny had enough and canceled his insurance (that they both share) immediately.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It's unclear exactly what he thought he was going to achieve by bragging at length about the various criminal offenses he'd committed over the years, but the actual result was that Cam contacted the Calgary city police -- who had been unaware of Scott's past, as his offenses were committed where he had previously lived -- and advised them to be on the lookout for him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Like Colin before him, he had no intention of learning anything. He also spoke of his numerous criminal offenses with ''pride''.

* NonGameplayElimination: When Danny canceled his insurance, it effectively meant Scott could not drive on the show's courses. As a result, he was expelled from the show.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Was loved by everyone on the show, and had a lot of fans while on the show, making him a very big favorite of the show to this day.

* NiceHat: Was almost never seen without his flat cap. Even when high-speed tennis balls were being launched toward him in the reflexes test, it stayed perched on his head throughout.

* IChooseToStay: Wanted to stay another week after Episode 2, despite being the better of the eight in the challenges. The panel honored her wishes and graduated Jon over her.

* CheatersNeverProsper: He tried to cheat a pass out of the "Shoulder Check Challenge" by turning his left shoulder to see what color the column is (the nominees are looking for green) and then turning to the right lane. He failed that challenge because of it.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the beginning, she was struggling with challenges and looked like she didn't care if she got the title. But by the end, she not only was the best out of them, she became one of the best drivers the show ever had.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Fully admitted that she bribed her driving instructor in order to get her license.

* HeelFaceTurn: Both Klyne and his mother both changed their behavior on the show; Klyne's reckless driving and Maureen becoming less of an enabler.

* OnlySaneMan: Lenny. He has gotten more assertive during the offseason, and is more likely to call out Lenny on his bullshit more than last time. It was amply demonstrated in a joint ConfessionCam segment after Kevin's taking the reversing challenge forwards lead to him trashing the Trans Am:

* ReformedButRejected: He wrote a letter to the judges saying he was ready to take accountability, but failed each challenge that episode, and his second letter to the judges was called out as deflecting.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: In a negative version of this trope, while Kevin was named Canada's Worst Driver Ever, Dale was perhaps the real loser of the season. Not only did she suffer a painful injury to her hand, but thanks to her actions in leaving rehab and generally unstable, unpredictable behavior in her second stint, her time on the show ended with the implication that she would most likely have her driving license revoked sooner or later. By contrast, Kevin was able to go back on his promise to give up driving, seeing how physically destroying one's license card isn't legally binding.

* EpicFail: He ran over a foam figure in the water tank challenge, causing the tank to break and spill ''the entire 100 liters'' on top of him.

* NervousWreck: She was a confident driver long ago, but after getting into an accident, her confidence dropped, and must take anti-anxiety medication.

* BlindWithoutEm: He was an early favorite to be named the season's worst, due to his spectacularly terrible early performances. After he got glasses a few episodes in, however, he started doing far better.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his occasionally jerkish behavior, he genuinely wanted to reform for the sake of ensuring that his son didn't inherit any of his bad driving habits.

* DitzyGenius: An honors graduate from McGill University, and yet he cannot grasp any aspect of driving whatsoever

* HiddenDepths: Graduated with honors from McGill University

* TookALevelInKindness: In the beginning of the season, he was one of the most selfish drivers out there who looked like he wouldn't change no matter the situation. But by the end of his run, he became nicer and less selfish while driving. In addition, he started taking the challenges more seriously. Cam even lampshades this in his graduation episode.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While arrogant, he is willing to admit his mistakes. And plus, he does drive more safely when his Grandma is in the car with him, so he isn't a total JerkAss.

* DudeNotFunny (InUniverse): A lot of Krystal's behavior is this, but the one that takes the cake is her laughing at Daniella when she's struggling in the Reverse Slalom. It was so offensive that Tyler forced Krystal to switch seats with him, and Jana and Chantal angrily told off Krystal.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She very quickly turned into this thanks to her attitude. Everyone on the show tried their hardest to be nice to her, but by the latter stages of the competition everyone's patience had clearly run out, eventually resulting in several people calling her out on her behavior towards Daniella in the final episode.

* JerkassRealization: A day after the season ended, Krystal stated in a [[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/after-mental-health-journey-canada-s-worst-driver-back-on-the-road-in-edmonton-1.3895810 interviewed Calgary AM radio show]] that after leaving rehab, she realized she was a danger on the road. She stated that she hasn't touched her phone while driving since October, and even went to see medical help on her behavior (it turns out she is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder).

** She does this whenever she's pissed off. But two infamous moments on the show include; angrily leaving the panel (and cursing and flipping off them) when they try to tell her that driving while texting on her cell phone is dangerous in Episode 4, and leaving pissed off when Andrew and Steven confront her about her behavior in Episode 6.
** Steven ended up doing this in the finale after reaching his limit with Krystal's behavior after the "Reverse Slalom Challenge" in the finale. He wasn't even there during the trophy ceremony, although he did film a final interview expressing his concern for his sister’s wellbeing.

* CharacterDevelopment: The show did this for him during his stay at rehab. When the season first started, he was shown to be an unrepentant drunk driver who could have easily been awarded Canada's Worst Driver if it wasn't for Krystal. But by the second half of the season, he did try to take the challenges more seriously. And by episode six, he was seen in a more sympathetic light when it was revealed that a brain injury that happened during a car accident lead him to drink in order to calm himself down. Toss in a decent performance during the Mega Challenge and an adequate road test and Tyler became a deserving graduate of the show to the point that not only Steven was impressed with his development, but the show repurposed the Worst Driver trophy as a Final Graduate Trophy instead.
* DrowningMySorrows: Before leaving for rehab, Tyler mentions that he drinks in order to calm himself down. It wasn't until Episode 6 when Jana revealed to Andrew that a brain injury from an accident caused his anxiety to spike up, so he drinks to slow his brain down.

* TookALevelInBadass: Did horribly throughout much of the season, and would have been the clear favorite to be named the worst had Krystal not also been there. He improved massively in the last three episodes, however, and ended up becoming the final graduate.

* MulticoloredHair: Her hair is colorful.

** In a more straightforward example, she ended up following a similar path to Emily from Season 4, in that she was consistently at the bottom of the pile when it came to the challenges, but ended up avoiding being the worst simply because she put in an effort to improve, unlike the one who ended up being named the worst (Ashley in Season 4, Melanie this season).

* ManChild: Labelled as one by the show (although mostly for humor), and part of his goal is to gain more confidence and be a man.

* NervousWreck: Her fear of driving on the highway got so bad, the cameraman had to complete the drive up to rehab for her.
* ThePerfectionist: She's an A-Class type. Unfortunately for her, the only thing she doesn't have control of is the other drivers. She also hates to fail at the challenges but eventually, she decides to focus on being a ''good'' driver, and not a ''perfect'' driver.

* EpicFail: Produced what Andrew and Cam agree to be the worst final drive in the show's history, which totaled up to $2100 of fines, and being oblivious to basic road signs (such as the no U-Turn sign). When you somehow pass even S9 Kevin and S12 Krystal's final drive (both of whom had their tests ended prematurely for various reasons), that's amazing.

** He came to rehab with a broken arm from a skateboard accident, and was almost barred from driving as he did not receive a signed form from a doctor clearing him. Brandon had to use a spinner attachment (designed for one-handed drivers) for the first few episodes, though after his cast was trimmed back he could start driving without it.

* SoreLoser: Zig-zagged; at first he refused to even consider the possibility that he might be the worst, and dropped a ClusterFBomb when Andrew announced he was. After it had sunk in, however, he cut up his license with minimal fuss and honored his promise to give up driving.

* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: Downplayed. In the parking lot challenge, Alexis was seen parking in a spot designated for pregnant women and admits that she does it often enough. Andrew does clarify thought that while it's not illegal to do that, it ''is'' immoral.

** Prior to coming onto the show, she believed that it was normal for a person to have had dozens of collisions and accidents while driving and that most drivers were just too proud to admit it. To demonstrate just how crazy this was, Andrew went around all the panel and crew during Episode 5, and aside from the ones you'd have expected the experts to be involved in during their line of work (i.e. police chases for Cam, races for Philippe, and accompanying accident-prone learners in Tim's case), they hadn't even been involved in a dozen accidents ''between them''.

* {{Workaholic}}: In Episode 5, she revealed she would usually pick up any overtime shifts (three per week) she could grab in order to pay for her damages out of her own pockets instead of just calling insurance for it. This is deconstructed as she works as a care aid towards people that were dealing with psychiatric problems, and she has no healthy outlet to deal with it.

* DownerEnding: Despite graduating in Episode 6 and proving that she could drive by herself, Karlene could not do the bonus lesson she requested, and after returning home, she sent a message to rehab saying that she had to go to therapy in what she called the "worst experience of her life", while also reverting back to her fear of driving outside her own town. Ultimately, this is one graduation that the show did not have a happy ending.

* CharacterDevelopment: The show made sure he got a sledgehammer load of this in the first four episodes. Slowly, he began to unravel some dark secrets from his family such as a father who was as angry as he was, an older brother that was in jail for killing somebody with his car, and a cousin that died in a car accident when he was twelve. In addition, his mother Jen refused to pay for his insurance any longer, forcing him to come to terms of becoming financially stable by himself. It took ''a lot'' from the experts, but eventually, Darris proved that he could drive without road raging anymore, and effectively became the second graduate.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was involved in an accident in a stolen car, which resulted in his cousin’s death. Although, this has not affected his driving in a positive way. Episode 2 adds more to that as it was his father's poor attitude that gave Darris' aggressive attitude towards driving, and his brother is in prison for vehicular manslaughter.

* OnlySaneMan: In a season that contains some of the most dysfunctional drivers yet (which includes a person with severe anxiety, a person who does not care about safety, a person who is extremely aggressive on the roads, a person who has terrible anger management issues, and a very clueless person), having just a cellphone addiction while driving is pretty tamed. And plus, Ryan got that managed even before coming to rehab.

* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Fully admitted that she flirted with her driving instructor to get her license. Andrew says that he hopes the instructor was watching this.

* RealLifeRelative: He's the nephew of Canadian comedian Brent Butt, who you know from Series/CornerGas.

* [[AsianDrivers Asian Driver]]: Well from India, but the trope still counts.

* DudeNotFunny: Her joking attitude over her poor driving is this. However, after her brother-in-law died from an accident, she realized that her driving was not funny anymore.

** In Season 9, it looked like he cut up Dale's license in front of her... only to then reveal that he destroyed a copy as he has no legal authority to destroy people's licenses. He did the same thing to Chanie in Season 10, but it turned out that he cut up an older license. And then he did it to Alexis in Season 14, but like with Dale, it was a fake and used to drive the point that despite not being the Worst that season, she was still a dangerous driver.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: She was allowed to come onto the show despite having a learners permit. Since this was in the show's early seasons, an ObviousRulePatch happened when Season 13's Travis came on.

* SoreLoser: For some bizarre reason she decided that she deserved to graduate in the penultimate episode despite being the only one of the drivers to outright fail two challenges that week. When Teagan graduated, she took the decision particularly badly, even compared to Ashley and Amy.

* LoopholeAbuse: Managed to get on the show despite the high prices he'd have been facing to insure himself by doing so on his nominator, Danny's insurance. When Danny eventually pulled the plug on said insurance, the panel slammed the loophole shut and told Scott to either pay for his own insurance or be expelled. Not surprisingly, Scott was soon on his way home in a taxi.

* IChooseToStay: Wanted to stay another week after Episode 2 despite being the better of the eight in the challenges. The panel honored her wishes and graduated Jon over her.

* EpicFail: While several previous drivers had failed to complete the final road test (Henrietta, Angelina, and Lance became too stressed to continue their drives, and Ashley's was stopped by mechanical failure), Kevin was the first instance of a driver doing so badly that Andrew forced them to stop despite their being willing to continue.

** He did so poorly throughout rehab that despite a perfect final drive, he became the first-ever person to fail to graduate from rehab despite not ending up as either the worst driver or runner-up (not counting the drivers who suffered a NonGameplayElimination).

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: He thought that he'd still be named the Worst Ever despite a great road test due to his poor challenge record. He only got lucky because Kevin's own road test was horrific, and they brought Dale back as a possible Worst Ever.

* CrackDefeat: Jason getting the final graduation over her was a pretty contentious decision, as he made more errors on his final drive and generally did worse than her throughout rehab. However, Jason did improve more than Siham, and Siham's own errors were more serious than Jason's (and arguably even Chanie's) despite her committing fewer of them, so there were valid reasons to graduate them both.

* IChooseToStay: He constantly asked to stay in rehab in the hopes he could improve more. It gets {{subverted}} in Episode 6 however, when the panel decided to graduate him despite his request to stay since he was easily the best out of the nominees so far, and the only other realistic nominee, Daniella, still had severe issues with nervousness.

* LackOfEmpathy: This borders on being a FatalFlaw, but Alexis does not care enough about the lessons, even calling them stupid when she fails them. Later episodes show more of that uncaring attitude with the show starting to comment that despite her saying that she ''does'' care, she doesn't show it in her driving, along with not taking the lessons seriously enough.

Throughout the show’s 14 season run, the Rehab Centre has had multiple contestants ranging from good, to bad.

'''Warning!''' Spoilers ahead unmarked! Note also that cast are listed in order in each season from the worst driver named for that season going backwards to the first graduate. You have been warned.

** In Season 9, it looked like he cut up Dale's license in front of her... only to then reveal that he destroyed a copy as he has no legal authority to destroy people's license. He did the same thing to Chanie in Season 10, but it turned out that he cut up an older license. And then he did it to Alexis in Season 14, but like with Dale, it was a fake and used to drive the point that despite not being the Worst that season, she was still a dangerous driver.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Krystal saw him as this, even though he was just trying to help her.

* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Andrew is adamant that each season has only one Canada's Worst Driver, and refuses the notion of having a tie. It gets subverted in Season 8 when Flora and Kevin were so bad in their performances, and the fact they refused to give up driving, that Andrew had no choice but to give them both the title (which judging from his tone of voice, it was a decision he did not want to go for).

* BadassDriver: Before becoming an expert, he was a former race car driver with over ''40'' podium wins in his career. He also teaches advanced driving techniques on the off seasons.

* KarmaHoudini: Got out of being named the worst because her final drive and Chris's were about as bad as each other, but Madalena showed up for her drive with a hangover, which the panel decided was proof that she'd have done better than Chris if she were sober. In the later seasons she would likely have been named Canada's Worst Driver ''because'' she showed up with a hangover. To top it all off, her father bought her a new car because she was "only" second worst.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While it doesn't look like she cares about rehab, the fact that she did come shows the need of improvement.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: Her slow runs can be a bit painful to watch, like her run on the "Water Tank Challenge".

* CriticalResearchFailure (InUniverse): When he saw that he had to parallel park an RV, he immediately said that driving that requires an M class licenses. Andrew immediately clarifies to the audience that anyone with a G license can drive an RV.
* GeniusDitz: He is a knowledgeable person, and understands the lessons. But for some reason, he can't apply it to the driving.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shannon is hot headed, but she did take the lessons to heart. Also, there is a good reason as to why she chose to come to rehab, for her unborn child.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: He loves speeding, to the point that he sped on a ''school zone''. Michael would get a lot of mileage out of his SPEEEED license plate.
* {{Foil}}: To Colin. They're both in rehab for their arrogance and speeding habits. However, Sean took rehab more seriously than Colin and the result shows; Sean graduated, while Colin got expelled.

* InsaneTrollLogic: See quote above. He later came to realize just how wrong this was, to the point where in the off-roading challenge he was one of the slowest and most cautious of the drivers.

* BackseatDriver: Sam gave her a lot of unneeded advice that were mostly terrible. But unlike a lot of examples, she was willing to listen to them.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Not only was she well-liked by the other contestants, with even Colin's only PetTheDog moment on the show being toward her, she was the first person in the show's history to get a unanimous graduation decision from the panel.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: In what was his final challenge, Colin delibertly crashed into the wall of boxes and claimed he "blacked out". However, Cam called his bluff by threatening him with a medical review.

* ButtMonkey: Wasn't looked too highly by the other nominees due to his age, and none of the women were happy when he graduated over them in the seventh episode.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Got caught trying to remove the head rest during the "Shoulder Check Challenge".

* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when she was shown footage of her terrible performances, and was placed on medical review, Donna continued to insist on driving.

*** She managed to break ''five'' traffic laws at once during the street parallel parking challenge, when she got out of the car to yell at a driver who was honking at her. Had she been caught; she'd have gotten almost $600 in fines.

* RealityEnsues: Since she had angina attack in a challenge, the show couldn't keep her around out of fear she would have another one (the courses are already stressful enough). Also, Cam and Dan, as part of their professions, called their respective districts to let them know about her condition and placed her on medical review (which judging from her angry email to the show, she lost).

* HappilyMarried: To his husband, who was also his nominator. He and Ashley were practically the perfect contrast when it came to showing the effects of having a supportive spouse as opposed to one who you're constantly at odds with.

* NervousWreck: She might be the most anxiety ridden driver the show ever had, resulting in her having to take anti-anxiety pills. Unfortunately, viewers who watched Canada's Worst Driver Ever know that this trope goes FromBadToWorse.

* ReformedButRejected: Played with. Despite cutting his license up in front of the panel, Cam still wanted to name him the Worst that year because of his poor road test. The only reason he didn't receive the title (or tied with Angelina) was because the rest of the panel believed that Mike was willing to change.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Whether it was because he started driving in India, or because of other unexplained reasons, he thought driving in two lanes at once was a good idea. It gets to be a plot point in the lane changing challenge where he reverts to it, and gets removed out of the challenge out of concern for the other drivers,

* BackseatDriver: Between his yelling and insults to Melissa, Wil might by the worst nominator the show ever had.

** ClothingDamage: By the end of the season, he was wearing a ripped wife beater shirt.

* NervousWreck: A strong contender for show's biggest example of this trope, to the point where he suffered a massive panic attack just minutes into his final drive, which had to be abandoned then and there, with Lance subsequently being taken to the hospital.

* ChekhovsSkill: As a motorcyclist, Paul knows how a clutch works, so he was able to pass the teeter totter challenge with ease.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It's unclear exactly what he thought he was going to achieve by bragging at length about the various criminal offenses he'd committed over the years, but the actual result was that Cam contacted the Calgary city police -- who had been unaware of Scott's past, as his offences were committed where he had previously lived -- and advised them to be on the lookout for him.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Maybe not outright ''stupid'' per se, but it certainly made her a worse driver, as she seemed to believe that divine forces would prevent her from getting into any accident.
* BreakTheHaughty: Afiya came to rehab to prove to her concerned friends and family she wasn't a bad driver. But she changed her tone when the season continued after the Distracted Driving Challenge.

* EpicFail: Her Eye of the Needle performance stands out as perhaps the worst in the show's entire history, as she spun off the track at '''140km/h'''[[note]] for Metric uses, that’s about 87 [=MPH=] [[/note]]. It was pure luck that neither she nor her husband were seriously hurt, or even killed. Afterwards, that part of the rehab center track was named after her.

* FlawlessVictory: Apart from Arun from Season 5, she had by far and away the best final road test in the show's entire history, not making a single error. It was good enough to ensure that neither Flora nor Kevin would graduate irrespective of how well their own final drives went, as Diane had done so much better than them throughout rehab (not that it mattered, given how terrible their final drives were).

* CaptainCrash: In between seasons, Kevin has gotten into a serious car accident that left him with whiplash. It was used as Cam’s argument as why he was named the Worst Ever.

* FailedASpotCheck: His intro video for this season has him not seeing a large truck making a left turn that he was about to hit, if it weren't for Lenny.
* ForWantOfANail: Kevin came shockingly close to graduating in Episode four, after passing the first two challenges. The only things that prevented it were a) an abysmal run at the eye of the needle, and b) Angelina's NonGameplayElimination.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: Averted. Despite being name the worst and cutting his license up, Kevin still drives]]

* OnlySaneMan: Lenny. He has gotten more assertive during the off season, and is more likely to call out Lenny on his bullshit more than last time. It was amply demonstrated in a joint ConfessionCam segment after Kevin's taking the reversing challenge forwards lead to him trashing the Trans Am:

* ReformedButRejected: He wrote a letter to the judges saying he was ready to take accountability, but failed each challenge that episode and his second letter to the judges was called out as deflecting.

* SpearCounterpart: Strangely enough, this season he seemed to turn into this for Shirley of all people. Unfortunately for him, it was Shirley as she had been in Season 7, not this year; he passed the second-most challenges after Michael, but was spectacularly dreadful on his final drive.

* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted; he did a lot better on the challenges this time around, but ended up doing far ''worse'' when it really mattered in the road test, which caused him to be named the worst.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: In a negative version of this trope, while Kevin was named Canada's Worst Driver Ever, Dale was perhaps the real loser of the season. Not only did she suffer a painful injury to her hand, but thanks to her actions in leaving rehab and generally unstable, unpredictable behaviour in her second stint, her time on the show ended with the implication that she would most likely have her driving licence revoked sooner or later. By contrast, Kevin was able to go back on his promise to give up driving, seeing how physically destroying one's licence card isn't legally binding.

* ButtMonkey: Virtually nothing seemed to go right for him this season. Despite generally respectable performances throughout, Shirley did better than him in the second episode, Cam blocked his graduation in the third episode for failing the swerve-and-avoid, Angelina's enforced departure in the fourth episode stopped him from graduating, his performance in the fifth episode was the best of the group but still not graduation-worthy, Shelby did better in the sixth episode, and then Dale's taking herself out of the process in the seventh episode stopped his graduation again. And that's ''before'' you consider the abuse he had to put up from with his initial nominator. Fortunately, it all came together in the end, and he became the final graduate.
** If you include Season 2, Michael as shortlisted for graduation an astounding seven times before finally graduating rehab.

* ButtMonkey: The show had her portrayed in a not-so-positive light with Andrew's declarations that Angelina would be declared the worst, and the other contestants joking around about her presence on the show. This was then averted with her removal due her nervous breakdown.

* MedalOfDishonor: Averted. While Andrew predicted at the start of the season that she would take the title, following her departure he retracted his statement about her being the worst, saying that it was impossible to fairly judge how capable a driver she was when she had so many other problems in her life, and that Kevin (and arguably also Sly) was worse because it was clear that he simply had zero talent for driving.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Fully Averted! In the time between seasons, she took more private driving lessons in Halifax, and studied up on the Nova Scotia Drivers Handbook. And if her appearance on this season says anything, it paid off!

* BaldOfAwesome: Played straight this time around. Not only did he have a flawless drive to rehab even with the burden of a severely hung-over Angelina as his passenger, he did flawlessly in the initial test and graduated in the first episode.

* OneHitWonder (InUniverse): She passed all three challenges in the fifth episode, and might have graduated if not for that being the season's traditional "no graduation" episode, and Chanie herself admitting that she got lucky passing said challenges. Following that, she never again came close to graduating.

* NervousWreck: She was a confident driver long ago, but after getting into an accident, her confidence dropped and must take anti-anxiety medication.
* YouTalkTooMuch: As previously mentioned, her husband is very bad when it comes to backseat driving. Finally, in episode 7 she tells him point-blank "You talk too much. Instructions or nothing." In this case, though, her husband can't really be blamed because she had specifically been asking him to guide her instead of doing the course herself like the should have.

* StepfordSmiler: Her constant laughing and smiling was to cover her own DarkAndTroubledPast.

* ShockingElimination (InUniverse): He and his nominator were surprised that he was even on the ''short list''.

* NervousWreck: This is a bit of an interesting case. Unlike a lot of drivers in this show that have fears of driving with barely any skills, Jillian does have the skills to drive, but her fear of driving is so bad, she can breakdown in the driver seat and be an emotional wreck.

* DitzyGenius: An honours graduate from McGill University, and yet he cannot grasp any aspect of driving whatsoever

** He also failed to graduate like Sly did in Season 9.
* HiddenDepths: Graduated with honours from McGill University

* BlindWithoutThem: He had bad eyesight, but got glasses early in the show. What's interesting is that he stated he did wear glasses as a kid, but stopped wearing them out fear they weren't cool.

* NeverMyFault: By far and away the show's worst-ever contestant in this regard, as she repeatedly claimed that as a millennial she has to be treated with kid gloves at all times, and that anytime someone upsets her it's always their own fault. Note that Cody, Daniella, and Diana are also in roughly the same age range (and Amrinder, though he grew up in India), yet never displayed anything remotely like this attitude.

* BackseatDriver: Invokes this onto others due to her stress, asking them to tell her what to do next. ''Especially'' when it comes to highways. This habit is a large reason as to why she didn't graduate in the last episode.
* BittersweetEnding: She wasn't named the worst driver this season -- albeit primarily because of Krystal's complete inability to keep her {{Jerkass}} and AdultChild habits in check during her road test -- but she never fully learned how to drive on the highway without being stressed out. Becomes {{inverted}} soon afterwards when Daniella posted on social media after the finale that she got her full G license months after filmed, meaning her fear on highway driving is all but gone.

* NervousWreck: Got very easily stressed out. She was able to reduce it somewhat throughout the season, but was never able to deal with it while on the highway.

* CaptainOblivious: To painful levels when being prompted to speak about his drunk driving habits. Most of the time he thinks it's about something else driving related.

** To Shayne. Both had abit of a negative outlook on driving but as with Ashely above, Shayne shook that outlook around the second half while Melanie kept hold of it to the very end.

* NervousWreck: Only started driving due to a recent divorce, and she's even afraid of parking in handicap spots.
* OddFriendship: Not that it was ever shown on-screen, but she apparently struck one of these up with Joe's nominator Tony during or after filming of the season. After the finale aired, Tony claimed on the show's Facebook page that the reason she never took up the driving lessons the show paid for was because he'd helped her improve her driving skills, and that she was now a competent driver.

* UngratefulBastard: She showed a bit of it when she was driving on the highway, and even lashed out at Tim a couple of times. Episode 7 revealed that she was getting more public driving lessons that the rest of the nominees, but still refused to follow Tim's suggestion (even the famous "drivers’ commentary") to help her out, which led Andrew to wonder if their efforts were working. Then in the end of Episode 8, Andrew revealed to her that when she got home they would offer her driving lessons, but she had not taken them at the time the finale aired (which was five months after it was filmed) although there is a good reason as the trope above explained.

* DistaffCounterpart: Oddly, she ended up being this for Sly from Season 7 and ''Ever'', in that she did poorly throughout the challenges, but avoided being named the worst thanks to a near-perfect road test. Averted in one sense however, in that the experts did believe she could become a competent driver if she shakes off her nerves, as opposed to Sly, who they very firmly believed shouldn't be driving.

** Between her and Jillian, both exhibit bad anxiety problems in rehab and on the road. It's just the difference is that Jillian showed in her season the basic skills of a good driver, while Ashley has yet to show it. In the end, she ended up being somewhat the opposite of Jillian; she stayed nervous throughout the season in challenges, but unlike Jillian, not only felt confident enough to attempt the road test, but even turned in the best test of the final three (well, aside from the slight matter of nearly running someone over).

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: He had a bit of a grouch look in the first three episode, but the challenges he has been passing gave him a big smile much to the praise of the experts.

* NeverMyFault: In the beginning at least. Travis blamed a lot of his shortcomings from his bad eye to the car itself instead of his own limitations as a driver. He stopped by the second half of his run, however.

* TookALevelInBadass: When he started, it looked like he would be named Canada's Worst Driver this year for his inexperience. But by the second half, he started to improve both as a driver and in his confidence. While he wasn't doing highway drives like the rest of the nominees, his improvements were enough to warrant a graduation.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse (InUniverse): He did not appear with the other nominees for the drive to rehab because he was at a wedding on the same day. Humorously the show made a life-size cardboard in his place until he finally arrived for his assessment challenge.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Part of the reason for her fear of driving and the highway is because she got t-boned three years ago. It took Tim getting her do a highway drive that rids her of those fears.

* FatalFlaw: Subverted. Impatience was this for her, but she quickly realized that it affected her performances in the challenges. Once she got it managed, she became the second graduate.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: By Episode 7, Brandon made a promise that should he be named the Worst Driver that year, he would give up driving for good. Indeed, when he was named the Worst, he cut up his licence willingly, and as Andrew stated at the end of the season, Brandon has not driven in the last 5 months after filming.

* EpicFail: Her Swerve and Avoid Challenge run was honestly the worst of the six as she ran through the ''middle'' barrier when the object appeared, and impaled the front of the Mustang with a wooden plank. The scary thing though; she didn't think it was ''that'' bad until she saw the carnage she caused!

* LackOfEmpathy: This borders on being a FatalFlaw, but Alexis does not care enough about the lessons, even calling them stupid when she fails them. Later episodes show more of that uncaring attitude with the show starting to comment that despite her saying that she ''does'' care, she doesn't show it in her driving, along with not taking the lessons serious enough.

* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: Downplayed. In the parking lot challenge, Alexis was seen parking in a spot designated for pregnant women, and admits that she does it often enough. Andrew does clarify thought that while it's not illegal to do that, it ''is'' immoral.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. In the final road test, Brittany revealed that she had study sessions every night to study road signs, and come the test, she had full knowledge of those road signs (compared to Alexis and Brandon, neither of whom bothered to study before hand).

** Prior to coming onto the show, she believed that it was normal for a person to have had dozens of collisions and accidents while driving, and that most drivers were just too proud to admit it. To demonstrate just how crazy this was, Andrew went around all the panel and crew during Episode 5, and aside from the ones you'd have expected the experts to be involved in during their line of work (i.e. police chases for Cam, races for Philippe, and accompanying accident-prone learners in Tim's case), they hadn't even been involved in a dozen accidents ''between them''.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: When you hear about all the accidents she has been in, it's unsurprising that she had a metal rod inside her arm, or scratches from broken glass.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yes, she's rough around the edges, and swears like a teenager, but Descyara was clearly one of the better students this season, and showed an honest desire to learn from rehab.

* TattooAsCharacterType: During her final episode, she went and got herself a tattoo of the word "Focus" written on as a reminder to keep focusing while driving.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: In the first five episodes, Karlene showed to be a kindhearted women, who had severe anxiety issues, and was willing to learn more to gain more confidence. Then came the Water Tank Challenge, where her attitude took a sharp turn when she yelled profanity at Andrew when he kept telling her to go 60 km/h in the straight away, and kept doing it in the confessional area[[note]]For curiosity sake, Brandon, who was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, had the same problem as well, but at the very least, he knew why Andrew kept shouting at him to go the speed limit[[/note]].

* DeathSeeker: Andrew believes in the premiere episode that Darris' reckless driving is based on guilt that he should have died in the accident that killed his cousin. Darris himself is starting to believe that.

* HairTriggerTemper: Might be the worst example the show has ever had in recent years. His road rage and anger issues has caused multiple accidents, and during the filming of the season, he had a pending charge of assault against him!

* {{Adorkable}}: A ''major'' geek, and able to drop sci-fi and comic references into any conversation, but also manages to stay very charming and likable while doing so.

* {{Adorkable}}: One of the most earnest and likable candidates from the show's history; Andrew's favorite as of ''Ever'', in fact.

* {{Adorkable}}: He has his moments.

* {{Adorkable}}

* {{Adorkable}}: Every bit as much as he was in Season 3.

* {{Adorkable}}

* {{Adorkable}}: He is this in spades.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: In a negative version of this trope, while Kevin was named Canada's Worst Driver Ever, Dale was perhaps the real loser of the season. Not only did she suffer a painful injury to her hand, but thanks to her actions in leaving rehab and generally unstable, unpredictabl behaviour in rehab, her time on the show ended with the implication that she would most likely have her driving licence revoked sooner or later. By contrast, Kevin was able to go back on his promise to give up driving, seeing how physically destroying one's licence card isn't legally binding.

* OnlySaneMan: Lenny. He has gotten more assertive during the off season, and is more likely to call out Lenny on his bullshit more than last time.

* Hypocrite:

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The show has had driving instructors, a law enforcer, and psychologists, but Jim is an automobile journalist.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The show has had driving instructors, a law enforcer, and psychologists, but Marcus is an insurance broker.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: It's not that often when we have a driving instructor as a nominator. The two keep in contact only because Alexis calls him whenever she gets into trouble.

* BackseatDriver: Her husband and nominator kept giving her unneeded advice. It gets to be a plot point in the 3rd episode when she failed the "Wall Challenge" because she was pathologically used to listening to Andy's advice and Scott didn't say anything.

* BittersweetEnding: She wasn't named the worst driver this season, but she never fully learned how to drive on the highway without being stressed out. Becomes {{inverted}} soon afterwards when Daniella posted on social media after the finale that she got her full G license months after filmed, meaning her fear on highway driving is all but gone.

* JerkassRealization: A day after the season ended, Krystal stated in a [[http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/833006147645 interviewed Calgary AM radio show]] that after leaving rehab, she realized she was a danger on the road. She stated that she hasn't touched her phone while driving since October, and even went to see medical help on her behavior (it turns out she is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder).

-> '''Nominator: Scott Nicholson (Husband)'''

* AscendedFanon: Another InUniverse example. He talked about 'shopping cart hockey', where one uses a car to attempt to push a shopping cart into a goal. It was used as a challenge.