History Characters / MasterChefCanada

* CompassionateCritic: Chef Alvin's very harsh, rough drill sergeant dictatorial tirade of furiously chewing out others is not out of malice, it's to better people. He's loudly hollering and yelling to correct, motivate, and try to help bring out the best in people by lighting a fire under them. He's harshly insulting and constructively criticizing for a justified reason to motivate them to do better with their cooking.
** His abrasive anger/frustration is brutally honest, constructive and 100% correct. It also shows how super passionate he is about his job as a chef in the culinary world because he truly cares about and believes in people and wants to help them excel, knowing what they're capable of achieving. His philosophy is "cruel to be kind", based on his fiery, larger-than-life personality.
** Working as a professional chef/corporate chef in a Michelin starred restaurant kitchen is a very harsh environment. If you can't embrace, cope with, and thrive under Chef Alvin's fiery, super strict, very harsh, furious, insulting ironfisted dictatorship, then you will never be successful in the culinary world.
* ConstructiveCriticism: Alvin is harshly critical and brutally honest (like a demanding teacher) in a way where he tells you where you went wrong, legitimately explains how/why it's wrong, and gives encouraging, constructive feedback on how you can improve next time. He gives good, justified, useful constructive criticism on the food, and usually says "actually the food should taste like this, not this" and "actually you should have done this". Gordon also compliments those who work hard and show that they deserve it.
* CruelToBeKind: When Alvin gets angry (for a justified reason), it’s because he wants people to improve themselves, produce good quality food as he genuinely cares about them, wants them to excel, and knows what they're capable of achieving. He doesn't attack the contestants personally. He constructively insults/criticizes your cooking errors on your dish, but doesn't personally insult you.
** In fact, Alvin is no more severe/harsh than a peer-reviewer in a science journal or anyone out in the real world. He's always spot on, justified, fair, and says the blunt harsh truth that's brutally honest. He insults you with grace (not out of malice) to help you get better. Contestants have said that it would be an honor to get chewed out by him as they would actually learn something useful from him.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''Series/HellsKitchen'', Ramsay is a lot more patient, calmer, affable, and forgiving with the contestants as he's not dealing with professional chefs/corporate chefs. He only occasionally loses his temper, usually when a contestant presents a horrible dish, argues/backtalks with him, as well as when he's supervising a Field Challenge (especially The Restaurant Takeover as he's seen wearing his chef's jacket). More so in the ''Junior'' edition, where it's ''extremely'' rare for him to harshly insult/criticize and angrily yell at elementary schoolchildren.
* SharpDressedMan: In every season finale.

* AuthorAppeal: He's a big fan of Italian cuisine due to his Italian heritage. He's also big on seafood as he resides in New Orleans.
* ConstructiveCriticism: Chef Aaron's comments are always on point and suggest how to creatively elevate the dish rather than just saying whether it's good or bad. He speaks with passion and conviction too. Because of this, Aaron gives valid reasons and constructive criticism/feedback critiques and tells them how to make it better.