History YMMV / CanadasWorstDriver

* Ryan from Season 14. Normally, nobody is allowed to graduate in the first episode, but Ryan proved that he was an excellent driver without his phone that the panel decided to make an exception.

* WhatAnIdiot: Two contestants in two separate seasons (same guys under RedemptionRejection) have stated low opinions of police officers, as well as having boasted about very illegal acts (Scott drove under someone else's name while under ''house arrest''). Look at the former occupation of TheBigGuy. He still carries a badge. He has an obligation to report such confessions to the police where these things happen. Yes, he ''will'' fulfill that obligation. Oh, and yes, the judges ''will'' question the intelligence of anyone who boasts about such things on ''live TV''.

*** Baba G (Season 13 Breanna's nominator) for being a BadassGrandma, and her caring attitude to her granddaughter.
* JerkassWoobie: Angelina. ''Dear God'', Angelina. She may be ignorant at times, and show a lack of improvement but her depression, anxiety and overall mental health problems are almost enough to make her a straight example of TheWoobie. Her boot episode in ''Ever'' shows just how damaged the poor woman is.

* Krystal in Season 12 is quite possibly the most hated nominator on the show that it required a folder for organisation.

** In terms of most hated nominators; we have Wil (Melissa's nominator) from Season 5 based on his constant yelling that goes into DomesticAbuse territory, and Yolanda (Michael's nominator) from ''Ever'' as she refused to go into the vehicle with him, and even reprimands him if he passes a challenge. Nobody missed Yolanda when her husband (and Michael's original nominator from Season 2) took her place in the second half.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show's premise is to try and make bad drivers better, but sometimes there are drivers that show they are unable to drive at all whether due to medical reasons, mental/emotional problems, or just being unable to drive at all. By the twelve seasons so far, at least 4 nominees have given up driving (two gave up willingly, one was willing to in the beginning only to be forced when he tried to weasel out of the deal, and one was forced to give up driving due to failing a medical driving review).

** Adam from Season 13. He is the best driver of the final 3, and was short-listed four times in a row (which also ties him with S4 Ashely and S9 Michael for the record), but his low confidence is the major problem, and his refusal to graduate kept him in rehab in the fifth episode.[[note]](though given that it seems an unwritten rule that the fifth episode of a season always ends with no graduation, chances are if he ''had'' wanted to graduate it would have been denied on the grounds that he did poorly in the Water Tank Challenge)[[/note]]
*** Shayne from the same season was this as well. He was the other strongest driver so far, and probably would have graduated in Episode 6 had he not admit to the panel that he had some road rage problems during the highway lessons with Tim. He did eventually graduate in the next episode.

** Season 13 has both Adam and Shayne as fan favorites. Adom for his {{Adorkable}} nature and his story of becoming a man, and Shayne for his story on gaining more confidence and changing his whole outlook on life after an accident when he was 13.

** Adam from Season 13 is becoming this. He is the best driver of the final 4, and was short-listed three times in a row, but his low confidence is the major problem, and his refusal to graduate kept him in rehab in the fifth episode.[[note]](though given that it seems an unwritten rule that the fifth episode of a season always ends with no graduation, chances are if he ''had'' wanted to graduate it would have been denied on the grounds that he did poorly in the Water Tank Challenge)[[/note]]
*** Shayne from the same season is becoming this as well. he is the other strongest driver so far, and probably would have graduated in Episode 6 had he not admit to the panel that he had some road rage problems during the highway lessons with Tim.

*** Donna's medical expulsion is this. Before the Water Tank Challenge, she was easily the worst driver of the eight, and everyone predicted she would be the recipient of the title. However, she suffered an angina attack during the water tank challenge (a condition she failed to mention to the crew beforehand), which caused the show to remove her from the show out of fear of any worse medical problems.
*** Teagan, at least to the contestant perspective. While Ashley was the better technical driver of the final four and was up on the shortlist for the fourth time, Teagan was the best out of them in 2 of the three challenges and improved a lot more of his own problems than Ashely. The three females (Ashley, Amy, and Emily) were not happy about the decision (though Andrew did admit that the decision, regardless of the outcome, would not have produced a good reaction).

*** Jamie from the same season can be this as well. Compared to her, Brad was the better technical driver, but she showed more confidence in the wheel, while Brad still hadn't fully gotten his wife to cooperate with him yet.

** Travis from Season 13. He improved a lot over the course of his run, but he was up against Shayne and Aaron who were shortlisted more than once. Travis got to graduate however since Shayne admitted that he had some road rage problems during a lesson with Tim, and Aaron didn't have a good run this episode.

** Adam from Season 13 is starting to become this. He is the best driver of the final 5, and was short-listed twice in a row, but his low confidence is the major problem, and his refusal to graduate kept him in rehab in the fifth episode.[[note]](though given that it seems an unwritten rule that the fifth episode of a season always ends with no graduation, chances are if he ''had'' wanted to graduate it would have been denied on the grounds that he did poorly in the Water Tank Challenge)[[/note]]

* Adam from Season 13 is starting to be this. He is the best driver of the final 5, and was short-listed twice in a row, but his low confidence is the major problem, and his refusal to graduate keeps him in rehab.

** Season 10 had a somewhat unusual example of this trope. While the season was actually airing, Siham was by far and away the most popular contestant with the fans, who viewed her as the DistaffCounterpart of Aaron, and it helped that she generally did well in the challenges. That all changed the day after the finale aired, when she went ballistic on social media, aiming some incredibly nasty insults at the people involved with making the show, and even some implied legal threats.[[note]](While she was vague about what exactly upset her, the general jist of it seemed to be that she was ''very'' pissed off that Jason was given the final graduation instead of her, and that Cam had tried to name her the worst driver. Many of the show's fans actually ''agreed'' that Siham should have been the final graduate, but the way she handled the issue unsurprisingly turned people off of her)[[/note]] Instead, Santana is now generally regarded as the season's Ensemble Darkhorse; while an early graduate, she was also perhaps the best performer aside from George, and definitely had the best attitude toward learning.

* JerkassWoobie: Angelina. ''Dear God'', Angelina. She may be ignorant at times, and show a lack of improvement but her depression, anxiety and overall mental health problems are almost enough to make her a straight example of TheWoobie. Her boot episode in Ever shows just how damaged the poor woman is.
* MilestoneCelebration: Counting the specials, the 100th episode was the penultimate episode of season 12. Andrew's monochrome lamenting of this fact [[MoodWhiplash is interrupted by a full-color marching band celebration.]]

** Jordan from Season 11 was hated for his self-centered attitude, and lack of interest in the rehab center early on. However, he managed to fix his main problems (eye sight, driving distracted), and developed a better attitude for learning, earning his graduation by Episode 6.

*** Speaking of [[BitchInSheepsClothing Jillian]], a few people hate her for blowing up at her fiance Mitchell even though he was there to help. It didn't help that some people felt that she reacted terribly to being named the worst for that year.

** Bob from Season 1 is the earliest example. He was a road rager who didn't initially take rehab seriously in the beginning, but after talking with Andrew, he managed to control his temper and became the first graduate. Andrew even [[LampshadeHanging notes]] that he thought Bob would be in rehab longer.

*** In any other season, Emily would have been named Canada's Worst Driver based on her lack of skillset. However, she barely managed to leave rehab without the title because Ashley's anger management problems were seen as more of an impending problem on the road. Also while Emily did get glasses to address her eyesight problems, Ashley never made any attempt to control her road rage problem (especially toward her husband).

** Season 12 has Mike, who had suffered a brain injury (like Aaron) turned UpToEleven (which was he had to ''relearn everything that he had ever learnt in his life'') and his commitment to learning how to drive again, despite the numerous accidents since he gotten .

* MilestoneCelebration: Counting the specials, the 100th episode was the penultimate episode of season 12. Andrew's monochrome lamenting of this fact [[MoodWhiplash is interrupted by a full color marching band celebration.]]

** Arun from Season 5. He was ''not'' liked by most viewers at first, especially during the fifth episode when he displayed blatantly sexist behavior toward his wife and nearly caused about a half-dozen accidents in the lane changing rally. However, the news that fellow contestant Crystal's brother-in-law had been killed in a motoring accident later in that episode really seemed to shake him up, and after that he took rehab a lot more seriously, started behaving more reasonably toward his wife, and became the season's final graduate.

** Two examples in Season 8 -- Klyne started out looking like another young driver who didn't give a crap about improving, in the same mould as Colin or Scott, but he took the rehab process seriously and ended up being the third person to graduate. In fact, he could have been the ''first'' person to graduate, but actually turned the opportunity down, feeling that he still had a lot more to learn. Also from that season, Margherita was probably the worst driver (other than Kevin) in the first half of the season, and initially didn't seem to care much about improving (largely due to her nominator constantly telling her that the experts were dumb and to disregard their advice), but she eventually took the lessons on-board and improved significantly over the course of the season, eventually becoming the penultimate graduate.

** Mariah from Season 10 was an early favorite to end up as the season's worst driver, due to her lackadaisical attitude and unrepentant admission of drink-driving. Over the course of the season she made a genuine effort to improve, and fully redeemed herself by getting a "no drinking and driving" tattoo on her arm when she graduated.
** Jordan from Season 11 was hated for his self centered attitude, and lack of interest in the rehab centre early on. However, he managed to fix his main problems (eye sight, driving distracted), and developed a better attitude for learning, earning his graduation by Episode 6.

** Colin (season 2) and Scott (season 6) are both InUniverse for their [[JerkAss arrogance]] and [[RedemptionRejection not taking the show seriously.]] After Scott was expelled, Paul said "Maybe this will wake him the @##! up".

*** Speaking of [[BitchInSheepsClothing Jillian]], a few people hate her for blowing up at her fiance Mitchell even though he was there to help. I made no help that some people felt she reacted terribly to being named the worst for that year.

** Her attitude once she is in rehab doesn't look any better either, in fact it might be worse. She looks more focused on her phone than the challenges, and even put down Tim's and Phillipe's driving lessons and techniques during the panel section, stating that she "doesn't need to use them" even though those techniques help her to be ''safe''. She also instantly developed a visible resentment and strong dislike of '''Andrew''' for calling her out on her horrendous driving.
** It doesn't stop there, the supposed pinnacle of her Scrappiness is in Episode 4 where she disregards the "Distracted Driving Challenge" for showing how her texting can be dangerous, and somehow claims to the experts that [[BandWagonTechnique she can text and drive because everyone else is doing it]]. When Andrew and Cam call her out on it, she cusses and flips the bird at Andrew and leaves the room. And yet, despite her horrendous disrespect to the panel of judges, she isn't [[KarmaHoudini expelled because of it]], although many fans speculated at the time that the show did not expel Krystal is that the production staff does not want to give her the satisfaction of being kicked out of the show. It is later confirmed that at the time Andrew and the CWD panel thought that they still could help her and did not want to seem like they were giving up.

** Bob from Season 1 is the earliest example. Was a road rager who didn't initially take rehab seriously in the beginning, but after talking with Andrew, he managed to control his temper and became the first graduate. Andrew even [[LampshadeHanging notes]] that he thought Bob would be in rehab longer.

*** Teagan, at least to the contestant perspective. While Ashley was the better technical driver of the final four and was up on the short list for the fourth time, Teagan was the best out of them in 2 of the three challenges. The three females (Ashley, Amy, and Emily) were not happy about the decision (though Andrew did admit that the decision, regardless of the outcome, would not have produced a good reaction).
*** In any other season, Emily would have been named Canada's Worst Driver based on her lack of skillset. However, she barely managed to leave rehab without the title because Ashley's anger problems were seen as more of an impending problem on the road. Also while Emily did get glasses to address here eye sight problems, Ashley never made any attempt to control her road rage problem (especially toward her husband).

*** Scott's expulsion, especially since it was so quick. After failing the shoulder check challenge, and laughing it off, his nominator Danny had enough and cancelled his insurance effectively tomorrow. Since the rules state that all drivers must have insurance in order to drive the shows vehicles on the courses, Scott was effectively expelled from rehab in the second episode, though based on his poor attitude on learning, he would have been expelled eventually.

* Krystal in Season 12 is quite possibley the most hated nominator on the show that it required a folder for organization.
** She already hated by fans before the first episode even finished. Her driving in both the drive to rehab and her audition tape is scary to the point of putting her nominator (and brother) in harm's way, and she argues that she isn't the worst because she hasn't killed anyone yet. Fans on the Facebook page say she will either be named the worst this year, or expelled like Colin and Scott.

** The pinnacle of her Scrappiness is in Episode 4 where she disregards the "Distracted Driving Challenge" for showing how her texting can be dangerous, and somehow claims to the experts that [[BandWagonTechnique she can text and drive because everyone else is doing it]]. When Andrew and Cam call her out on it, she cusses and flips the bird at Andrew and leaves the room. And yet she isn't [[KarmaHoudini expelled because of it]], although many fans speculate that the most likely reason for not expelling Krystal is that the show does not want to give her the satisfaction of being kicked out of the show. It is later confirmed that at the time Andrew and the CWD panel thought that they still could help her and did not want to seem like they were giving up.
** Her driving skills and behavior only went FromBadToWorse as Season 12 progressed, and it didn't look pretty. By the time Episode 5 & 6 aired, she is now constantly arguing with her nominator (and brother) Steven, starts refusing to do challenges because she believes that Andrew and Steven is the problem, throwing angry temper outbursts and tantrums and keeps blaming other people for making her feel bad. By Episode 7, her fights with Steven turned physical and she is now being openly hostile to the panel of experts and Andrew himself. Even Andrew asks about the open hostility, and finds out that Krystal thinks that he is the problem.

*** Andrew, where Krystal constantly attacked him for pointing out (correctly) that her driving is putting others at danger, leading Andrew to state on camera that her drama is tiring him out. His breaking point was when he frustratedly had to state that Krystal's texting and driving habit was endangering the crew and showing that she did not commit to her promises of not texting and driving while moving in Episode 7. The true point however is in the final episode where her many in fractures on the road laws, combined with her road rage text dependent usage, and constant yelling at Andrew caused him to finally have enough, and call off the road test.

*** Philipe and Tim, where Krystal defiantly states that she gets bored driving safe, drives dangerously for the funs and laughs, ignoring their driving lessons on purpose because "they are too high a level for me" and brazenly states that she shouldn't need them to help her drive. Tim's breaking point was when he saw Krystal go off road during the trailer challenge in Episode 6, and Philipe's was when she blew off his driving lessons in Episode 3.
*** And lastly, Shyamala when Krystal blames everyone else for making her 'feel bad' and showing incredible anger to the entire panel. Her breaking point came when Krystal stated that she would never understand millennials in Episode 6, despite Shyamala being a ''licensed and practicing psychologist''!.
** The last episode was possibly the worst of her. She laughed when Daniella was having a hard time on the three in a car challenge, causing everyone to [[DudeNotFunny lash out on her behavior]], and ending with her leaving the car in frustrated denial. This caused her brother to refuse to look at her anymore and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere disappeared for the rest of the episode]], although the show probably let him walk off the set for his own well being (he did film a final interview expressing his concern on his sisters behavior). Then her public road test was considered the worst out of the three, and her constant ignorance, infractures, and yelling at Andrew were too much for him to handle, causing Andrew to end the road test abruptly after she deliberately turn a corner sharp and fast, and him walking off and making his own way back to the rehab center in the camera car. With no needed discussion, the panel named her the worst this year (without the trophy because she didn't earn it), and she ends her tenure as the most hated contestant on the show.

** Siham from Season 10 was nominated several times as the season progressed, but kept narrowly missing out and ended up in the final episode. In her case it was mostly because while she was quite capable technically, she had major issues with confidence and kept relying on her husband to make all the decisions. In the end she didn't actually graduate as such, but did get easily the most positive edit out of any runner-up... not that this stopped her from dropping a ClusterFBomb or ten on Facebook and Twitter, over the fact that Jason was graduated over her.

*** To further about Colin, he went to college for [[HypocriticalHumor police studies]] - i.e. to become a police officer - when he was nominated, and said on camera that he would flash his student ID at any officer that pulled him over and claim he was on his way to an exam. Then, he said he 'didn't think cops were very smart'. Cam Woolley [[TheDogBitesBack took a number of very helpful photos of Colin's car, his license plate number, and the video clip of him saying he thinks police are stupid, and emailed it to all the officers in Colin's town.]] Apparently, he had to sell his car because of all the police attention.

*** Early on, Colin's expulsion was this to both the candidates, ''and'' viewers. With his poor attitude to learning, and deliberately failing the challenges, a lot of people expected him to be named Canada's Worst Driver that year. However, Andrew had enough, and destroyed Colin's keys effectively expelling him from rehab.

** Colin (season 2) and Scott (season 6) are both InUniverse for their arrogance and not taking the show seriously. After Scott was expelled, Paul said "Maybe this will wake him the @##! up".
** Donna from Season 4, as a result of her unrepentant attitude toward drink-driving and continuing to believe that she should drive despite numerous health problems. Even the loss of her license she remained as defiant as ever in the e-mail she sent to the show.
** Dale, especially after her antics in ''Ever'', which ultimately resulted in her being expelled in the penultimate episode and made many viewers think she should have still received the title despite being expelled (and she almost did). If she wasn't hated for that, she's more likely hated for trying to ''run over'' Andrew and pass it off as a "joke".
** Kevin in season 8 and ''Ever'' was greatly disliked by viewers because [[NeverMyFault blamed everything else on his bad driving]] from the weather to his blind eye, and even swore at Andrew and snapped at him after Andrew stopped the drive when it was becoming too dangerous to continue. Kevin also snapped at some fans on the Show's Facebook page.
** Sly with some fans in ''Ever'', for breaking his distracted driving promise to Aaron from Season 7, and also to fans of Season 7's Shirley, who felt he should have still been named the worst despite his better final drive.
** Sholom in Season 11 is this for most fans. His total oblivious was just painful to watch, and failed all but one challenge. Fans of Jillian were more angry when he was passed over as the worst that season in favor of Jillian.
*** Speaking of Jillian, a few people hate her for blowing up at her fiance Mitchell even though he was there to help.

* Krystal in Season 12 was already hated by fans before the first episode even finished. Her driving is scary to the point of putting her nominator (and brother) in harm's way, and she argues that she isn't the worst because she hasn't killed anyone yet. Fans on Facebook say she will either be named the worst this year, or expelled like Colin and Scott.

** The last episode was possibly the worst of her. She laughed when Daniella was having a hard time on the three in a car challenge, causing everyone to [[DudeNotFunny lash out on her behavior]], and ending with her leaving the car in frustrated denial. This caused her brother to refuse to look at her anymore and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere disappeared for the rest of the episode]], although the show probably let him walk off the set for his own well being. Then her public road test was considered the worst out of the three, and her constant ignorance, infractures, and yelling at Andrew were too much for him to handle, causing Andrew to end the road test abruptly after she deliberately turn a corner sharp and fast, and him walking off and making his own way back to the rehab center in the camera car. With no needed discussion, the panel named her the worst this year (without the trophy because she didn't earn it), and she ends her tenure as the most hated contestant on the show.

*** Sean. He managed to admit that driving fast wasn't safe, and graduated right after Jodi in the same episode.

*** Chris managed to graduate from Episode 1, which normally is the episode where no one graduates. However, he was the best driver of the nine, so they didn't need to keep him around any longer.

*** Tyler is another case. He didn't pass any challenges in his graduation episode, but his performance wasn't as bad as the other three, and he showed more confidence and awareness out of them.

** Sly went from a near perfect final drive in Season 7 and a promise not to drive distracted to a terrible performance in Ever. Ultimately DoubleSubverted when he had a great roadtest once again.
** Jillian from Season 11. She had the best technical skills out of all of the nominees, and could have graduated early, but she stayed on. Unfortunately, her performances dropped in the second half, and she couldn't get the confidence to drive on the roadtest.

** Dale, especially after her antics in ''Ever'', which ultimately resulted in her being expelled in the penultimate episode and made many viewers think she should have still received the title despite being expelled (and she almost did). If she wasn't hatted for that, she's more likely hated for trying to ''run over'' Andrew and pass it off as a "joke".

*** Speaking of Jillian, a few people hate her for blowing up at her finace Mitchell even though he was there to help.

** The pinnacle of her Scrappyness is in Episode 4 where she disregards the "Distracted Driving Challenge" for showing how her texting can be dangerous, and somehow claims to the experts that [[BandWagonTechnique she can text and drive because everyone else is doing it]]. When Andrew and Cam call her out on it, she cusses and flips the bird at Andrew and leaves the room. And yet she isn't [[KarmaHoudini expelled because of it]], although many fans speculate that the most likely reason for not expelling Krystal is that the show does not want to give her the satisfaction of being kicked out of the show. It is later confirmed that at the time Andrew and the CWD panel thought that they still could help her and did not want to seem like they were giving up.

*** Andrew, where Krystal constantly attacked him for pointing out (correctly) that her driving is putting others at danger, leading Andrew to state on camera that her drama is tiring him out. His breaking point was when he fustratedly had to state that Krystal's texting and driving habit was endangering the crew and showing that she did not commit to her promises of not texting and driving while moving in Episode 7. The true point however is in the final episode where her many in fractures on the road laws, combined with her road rage text dependent usage, and constant yelling at Andrew caused him to finally have enough, and call off the road test.

** Donna's medical expulsion is this. Before the Water Tank Challenge, she was easily the worst driver of the eight, and everyone predicted she would be the recipient of the title. However, she suffered an angina attack during the water tank challenge (a condition she failed to mention to the crew beforehand), which caused the show to remove her from the show out of fear of any worse medical problems.

*** In any other season, Emily would have been named Canada's Worst Driver based on her lack of skillset. However, she barely managed to leave without the title because Ashley's anger problems were seen as more of an impending problem on the road. Also while Emily did get glasses to address here eye sight problems, Ashley never made any attempt to control her road rage problem (especially toward her husband).

** Margherita from Season 8. Despite Diane having a better success rate, the experts graduated Margherita on the fact she was able to manage her emotions, fix her pedal control, and being less self centered. Andrew admitted he didn't agree with the decision, but did congratulate her nevertheless.

*** Ian didn't pass any challenges, but was allowed to graduate early since the experts believe he was the most aware of the personal problems he was making (that and promising to quit as a taxi driver helped his case as well). Even he was surprised on the decision. In most circumstances it would probably have been George who graduated that week, but he had a son who was just learning to drive, and the panel seemed determined not to let him graduate until they knew he wouldn't pass on any bad habits.

*** Both Sholom and Polly are a similar case with Sly above. Near the end of the season, the consensus was that Jillian would be the final graduate, and Sholom/Polly would be the "winner" and "runner up" respectively. However, while both made mistakes on their road test, Jill didn't complete the road test, and the two of them were allowed to leave (they didn't graduate though; Sholom's poor challenge record had him "fail" rehab, while Polly was named the runner up).

** Sean from Season 2. He managed to admit that driving fast wasn't safe, and graduated right after Jodi in the same episode.

** Donna's medical expulsion from Season 4 is this. Before the Water Tank Challenge, she was easily the worst driver of the eight, and everyone predicted she would be the recipient of the title. However, she suffered an angina attack during the water tank challenge (a condition she failed to mention to the crew beforehand), which caused the show to remove her from the show out of fear of any worse medical problems.

** Scott's expulsion from Season 6, especially since it was so quick. After failing the shoulder check challenge, and laughing it off, his nominator Danny had enough and cancelled his insurance effectively tomorrow. Since the rules state that all drivers must have insurance in order to drive the shows vehicles on the courses, Scott was effectively expelled from rehab in the second episode, though based on his poor attitude on learning, he would have been expelled eventually.

** John from Season 7. He graduated from rehab early since he promised to better his attitude after talking with Aaron. The only other person on the shortlist for that episode was Lauri, who despite doing better in the challenges, wanted to stay in rehab for a bit longer.
*** Sly from the same season is this, though not in a good way. Compared to Shirley's challenge record, he failed more than he passed, and looked to be the "winner" of that season. However, he had a flawless road test while Shirley had the worst out of the three, barely saving him from the title.

** Henrietta from the Ever Season. Was disqualified from rehab after admitting she wasn't driving as much anymore, causing the experts to let her go in the first episode.

** Ian from Season 10. Didn't pass any challenges, but was allowed to graduate early since the experts believe he was the most aware on the personal problems he was making (that and promising to quit as a taxi driver helped his case as well). Even he was surprised on the decision. In most circumstances it would probably have been George who graduated that week, but he had a son who was just learning to drive, and the panel seemed determined not to let him graduate until they knew he wouldn't pass on any bad habits.
*** Tyler from the same season is another case. He didn't pass any challenges in his graduation episode, but his performance wasn't as bad as the other three, and he showed more confidence and awareness out of them.
** Tina and Alex are this in Season 11. Both had rage issues on the road, but both of them managed to pass the "Shoulder Check" Challenge, which lead to both of them on the shortlist. When the panel couldn't agree on who to graduate out of the two, Andrew decided to graduate ''both'' of them that episode (though it could have also been that the show had nine contestants instead of the normal eight, so they needed to slim the numbers faster).

* Jillian from Season 11. She had the best technical skills out of all of the nominees, and could have graduated early, but she stayed on. Unfortunately, her performances dropped in the second half, and she couldn't get the confidence to drive on the roadtest.

** Colin (season 2) and Scott (season 6) are both InUniverse for their arrogance and not taking the show seriously, after Scott was expelled, Paul said "Maybe this will wake him the @##! up".

** Dale, especially after her antics in ''Ever'', which ultimately resulted in her being expelled in the penultimate episode and made many viewers think she should have still received the title despite being expelled (and she almost did).

** Sholom in Season 11 is this for most fans. His total oblivious was just painful to watch, and failed all but one challenge. Fans of Jillian were more angry when he was passed over as the worst that season in favor of Jillian

** Krystal in Season 12 was already hated by fans before the first episode even finished. Her driving is scary to the point of putting her nominator (and brother) in harm's way, and she argues that she isn't the worst because she hasn't killed anyone yet. Fans on Facebook say she will either be named the worst this year, or expelled like Colin and Scott.
*** Her attitude once she is in rehab doesn't look any better either, in fact it might be worse. She looks more focused on her phone than the challenges, and even put down Tim's and Phillipe's driving lessons and techniques during the panel section, stating that she "doesn't need to use them" even though those techniques help her to be ''safe''. She also instantly developed a visible resentment and strong dislike of '''Andrew''' for calling her out on her horrendous driving.
*** The pinnacle of her Scrappyness is in Episode 4 where she disregards the "Distracted Driving Challenge" for showing how her texting can be dangerous, and somehow claims to the experts that [[BandWagonTechnique she can text and drive because everyone else is doing it]]. When Andrew and Cam call her out on it, she cusses and flips the bird at Andrew and leaves the room. And yet she isn't [[KarmaHoudini expelled because of it]], although many fans speculate that the most likely reason for not expelling Krystal is that the show does not want to give her the satisfaction of being kicked out of the show. It is later confirmed that at the time Andrew and the CWD panel thought that they still could help her and did not want to seem like they were giving up.
*** Her driving skills and behavior only went FromBadToWorse as Season 12 progressed, and it didn't look pretty. By the time Episode 5 & 6 aired, she is now constantly arguing with her nominator (and brother) Steven, starts refusing to do challenges because she believes that Andrew and Steven is the problem, throwing angry temper outbursts and tantrums and keeps blaming other people for making her feel bad. By Episode 7, her fights with Steven turned physical and she is now being openly hostile to the panel of experts and Andrew himself. Even Andrew asks about the open hostility, and finds out that Krystal thinks that he is the problem.
*** Also, in a terrible record first that could be predicted as early as Episode 1, Krystal managed to upset, anger and piss off the entire CWD panel of experts with her wild and dangerous behaviors, in the order listed below:
*** Andrew, where Krystal constantly attacked him for pointing out (correctly) that her driving is putting others at danger, leading Andrew to state on camera that her drama is tiring him out. His breaking point was when he fustratedly had to state that Krystal's texting and driving habit was endangering the crew and showing that she did not commit to her promises of not texting and driving while moving in Episode 7. The true point however is in the final episode where her many in fractures on the road laws, combined with her road rage text dependent usage, and constant yelling at Andrew, caused him to finally have enough, and call of the road test.

*** The last episode was possibly the worst of her. She laughed when Daniella was having a hard time on the three in a car challenge, causing everyone to [[DudeNotFunny lash out on her behavior]], and ending with her leaving the car in frustrated denial. This caused her brother to refuse to look at her anymore and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere disappeared for the rest of the episode]], although the show probably let him walk off the set for his own well being. Then her public road test was considered the worst out of the three, and her constant ignorance, infractures, and yelling at Andrew were too much for him to handle, causing Andrew to end the road test abruptly after she deliberately turn a corner sharp and fast, and him walking off and making his own way back to the rehab center in the camera car. With no needed discussion, the panel names her the worst this year (without the trophy because she didn't earn it), and she ends her tenure as the most hated person on the show.

*** Teagan, at least to the contestant perspective. While Ashley was the better technical driver of the final four and was up on the short list for the fourth time, Teagan was the best out of them in 2 of the three challenges. The three females (Ashley, Amy, and Emily) were not happy about the decision (though Andrew did admit that the decison, regardless of the outcome, would not have produced a good reaction).
*** In any other season, Emily would have been named Canada's Worst Driver based on her lack of skillset. However, she barely managed to leave without the title because Ashley's anger problems kept were seen as more of an impending problem on the road. Also while Emily did get glasses to address here eye sight problems, Ashley never made any attempt to control her road rage problem (especially toward her husband).

*** Chris managed to graduate from Episode 1, which normally is the episode where no one graduates. However, he was the best driver of the nine, so they didn't need to keep him on any longer.

*** Tyler from the same season is another case. He didn't pass any challenges in his graduation episode, but his performance wasn't as bad as the other three, and he had more confidence and awareness out of them.

*** Jordan. He had a better attitude compared to his ItsAllAboutMe attitude in the beginning, but Renee had a better attitude overall, and was technically better than Jordan. However, when Renee mentioned that she wouldn't drive her son on the highway just yet, the show felt to keep her for one more week and graduated Jordan instead.

** Season 12's Mike is one, considering his tragic backstory.

** Sly went from a near perfect final drive in Season 7 and a promise not to drive distracted to a terrible performance in Ever. Ultimately DoubleSubverted when he had a great roadtest once again

** Mariah from Season 10 was an early favourite to end up as the season's worst driver, due to her lackadaisical attitude and unrepentant admission of drink-driving. Over the course of the season she made a genuine effort to improve, and fully redeemed herself by getting a "no drinking and driving" tattoo on her arm when she graduated.

*** Andrew, where Krystal constantly attacked him for pointing out (correctly) that her driving is putting others at danger, leading Andrew to state on camera that her drama is tiring him out. His breaking point was when she fustratedly had to state that Krystal's texting and driving habit was endangering the crew and showing that she did not commit to her promises of not texting and driving while moving in Episode 7. The true point however is in the final episode where her many in fractures on the road laws, combined with her road rage text dependent usage, and constant yelling at Andrew, caused him to finally have enough, and call of the road test.

*** The last episode was possibly the worst of her. She laughed when Daniella was having a hard time on the three in a car challenge, causing everyone to [[DudeNotFunny lash out on her behavior]], and ending with her leaving the car in frustrated denial. This caused her brother to refuse to look at her anymore and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere disappeared for the rest of the episode]], although the show probably let him walk off the set for his own wellbeing. Then her public road test was considered the worst out of the three, and her constant ignorance, infractures, and yelling at Andrew were too much for him to handle, causing Andrew to end the road test abruptly after she deliberately turn a corner sharp and fast, and him walking off and making his own way back to the rehab center in the camera car. With no needed discussion, he panel names her the worst this year (without the trophy because she didn't earn it), and she ends her tenure as the most hated person on the show.

** Tina and Alex are this in Season 11. Both had rage issues on the road, but both of them managed to pass the "Shoulder Check" Challenge, which lead to both of them on the shortlist. When the panel couldn't agree on who to graduate out of the two, Andrew decided to graduate ''both'' of them that episode.

** Jillian in Season 11 is this for most fans. She lashes out at her fiance for her mistakes, and reacted terribly when she was named the worst .

** Jordan from Season 11 was hated for his self centered attitude, and lack of interest in the rehab centre early on. However, he managed to fix his main problems (eye sight, driving distracted), and has a better attitude for learning, earning his graduation by Episode 6.

* ShockingElimination: Sometimes, viewers and nominators will be surprised over the decision the experts make on who to graduate.

*** Early on, Colin's expulsion was this to both the candidates, ''and'' viewers. With his poor attitude to learning, and deliberately failing, a lot of people expected him to be named Canada's Worst Driver that year. However, Andrew had enough, and destroyed Colin's keys effectively expelling him from rehab.

*** Teagan, at least to the contestant perspective. While Ashley was the better technical driver of the final four, Teagan was the best out of them in 2 of the challenges. The three females (Ashley, Amy, and Emily) were not happy about the decision.

** Scott's expulsion from Season 6, especially since it was so quick. After failing the shoulder check challenge, and laughing it off, his nominator Danny had enough and cancelled his insurance effectively tomorrow. Since the rules state that all drivers must have insurance in order to drive their vehicles on the courses, Scott was effectively expelled from rehab, though based on his attitude on learning, he would have been expelled eventually.