Canada's Worst Driver 12
Canada's Worst Driver 12 was the twelfth season of the Canadian reality TV show "Canada's Worst Driver," which aired on the Discovery Channel. As with previous years, eight people, nominated by their family or friends, enter the Driver Rehabilitation Centre to improve their driving skills. The focus of this season was on the Dangers of Speeding. This year, the Driver Rehabilitation Centre is located at the Dunnville Airport in Dunnville, Ontario for the seventh straight season. The initial drive started in Niagara Falls, Ontario and the final road test occurred in Hamilton, Ontario . This season notably featured reckless and texting while driving contestant Krystal McCann, who not only drove in a way that was rude, inconsiderate, selfish and unacceptable, but also became the first-ever "Canada's Worst Driver" "winner" to "not" receive the trophy due to her refusal to learn. Reactions towards Krystal's behaviour on the show was overwhelmingly negative, due to her overall equally negative appearance, especially her rudeness noted towards host Andrew Younghusband. In an interview, Krystal revealed that she had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder after the show, in an attempt to explain her volatile attitude. Contestants . This season features eight contestants, down from the nine featured in the eleventh season: Synopsis. Episode 1. The experts have harsh words for Krystal and Tyler, due to their confrontational attitude and drunk-driving habits, respectively. Tyler admits from the start that he might be Canada's Worst Driver, but Krystal angrily denies that she is the worst and the experts are perturbed by her repeated claims that she is not really a bad driver because she has never severely injured anyone. As usual, no one graduates this episode, as it serves merely as a skills evaluation. Note: This episode  did not display an opening title screen or broadcast the opening animation. Episode 2. When meeting with the experts, Krystal complains that Andrew is being unduly harsh on her, but the experts are unsympathetic and say that so far, she has proved his criticisms to be correct. Despite this, she believes that she deserves to graduate and that her only problem as a driver was not knowing how to reverse, much to the panel's disbelief. Cody also tells the panel what he has learned in the episode, and that he now fully understands what is at stake if he  continues to drive recklessly. While Andrew's opinion is that Cody is just telling the panel what they want to hear (he had the same opinion about whether to graduate Afiya Lassy in the penultimate episode of the seventh season), the experts feel that he has learned enough to graduate. Cody therefore becomes the season's first graduate and, before leaving, is given a Mike-shaped rear-view air freshener to remind him of what could happen if he lapses back into his speeding habits. Episode 3. Tyler admits to the judges that this episode has been a wake-up  call, both in terms of the other drivers' reaction to his drinking and driving (particularly Lou, who continued to remind him about her deceased friend off-camera) and realizing that he is not as good of a driver as he thinks he is. Krystal again wants to graduate, but is immediately shot down by the judges and does not help her cause by implying that nothing Tim has taught her has been of any use. Amrinder and Diana put themselves forward for graduation and the judges consider both, due to the former being the only person to pass two challenges  this episode and the latter's exemplary Eye of the Needle performance. Tim and Shyamala back Amrinder to graduate for being the more technically skilled of the two and believing that Diana was still too distracted, while Andrew and Philippe back Diana, as they are unconvinced that Amrinder has reformed his speeding habits, but are satisfied that Diana has learned to drive without distractions. This leaves Cam with the deciding vote, which he casts in favour of Amrinder, who not only becomes the season's second graduate, but also wins a $20 bet with Krystal that he would graduate  before her. Episode 4. Diana puts herself forward for graduation and admits that she is finally ready to give up her distracted driving. Krystal also puts herself forward yet again, but continues to claim that she is skilled enough to text and drive and when Andrew and Cam call her out on this, she storms out of the meeting with the experts, flipping off Andrew and angrily yelling obscenities at him and Cam even hints Krystal will eventually end up being the "winner." Despite Krystal's outburst, the experts decide that her actions are not worthy of expulsion and immediately  come to the unanimous decision to graduate Diana for her near-flawless performance in this episode. Episode 5. Though Daniella and Mike are noted to have been the two best performers in both of the episode's challenges, Mike says that he still does not feel ready to graduate, while Daniella's admission that she occasionally "blacks out" at the wheel instantly destroys any chance of her graduating this episode. Lou and Tyler both admit that they are nowhere near ready to graduate, while Krystal, for the first time this season, finally admits that she is a poor driver and  needs a lot more help. Mike is the only person who makes the experts' shortlist, but they immediately decide to honour his wish to stay. As a result, the episode ends-- as usual for the fifth episode of a "Canada's Worst Driver" season-- with no one graduating. Episode 6. While the experts consider Daniella to be the overall best performer in this episode and praise her for researching how to properly reverse a trailer on her own time, she admits that she still finds highway driving an immensely stressful experience and is not yet ready to graduate. Mike also  does not want to graduate despite having done reasonably well so far, but is confident that he is not Canada's Worst Driver. Krystal does not believe she is Canada's Worst Driver and claims that Tyler is the worst of the group, something that Tyler himself actually admits might be the case. For the second episode in a row, Mike is the only person to be shortlisted. Despite his wish to stay in rehab, the lack of any other feasible graduate and Tim's positive feedback about his performance in the highway drives between challenges sees Mike become the  next graduate. Episode 7. Before the episode begins, Andrew hosts a short skit commemorating this being the show's 100th episode (assuming the "Canada's Worst Drivers vs. the World," "147 Driving Don'ts," "Why Accidents Happen: 101 Problems on Canadian Roads" and "Canada's Worst Driver: U Asked!" specials are counted). When Krystal meets the experts, they tell her that had she not displayed such a blatantly poor attitude in the last challenge, she would almost certainly have been shortlisted to graduate this week. In response, Krystal blames Andrew, accusing him of being unhelpful and overly negative. Daniella declines to  graduate, feeling that she needs to take part in the final road test to fully prove herself, but both Lou and Tyler feel that they have learned enough to graduate. Lou and Tyler are both shortlisted. Tim and Shyamala back Lou, feeling that she has the best attitude of the remaining drivers and the safest approach toward driving, while Philippe and Cam back Tyler for an overall better performance in this episode, leaving Andrew with the deciding vote and, in a 3–2 split decision (Tim and Shyamala backing Lou and Philippe and Cam backing Tyler), Lou becomes the season's  penultimate graduate, though it is Tim's feedback on her public drives that ultimately seals the deal, sending Tyler into the finale with Daniella and Krystal. In his final meeting with the experts, Tyler confidently declares that he is not Canada's Worst Driver, while Daniella admits that, despite having improved as a driver, she still feels far too nervous to drive on the highway. Krystal, meanwhile, remains defiant until the end. Ultimately, the experts agree that there is no need for a discussion over who is the worst of the final three; while Tyler made some major errors on  his final drive and Daniella's poor track record, alongside her dangerous indecisiveness on the highway, may have caused her to be named the worst in many previous seasons (hinting at Jason Zhang in the third season, Shirley Sampson in the seventh season and Jillian Matthews in the previous season), Krystal is agreed to be obviously the worst for her hostility and refusal to learn. Andrew, however, does express disappointment that they could not reach through to Krystal properly and feels that they failed as teachers this season. Cam, however, tells him not to feel that way, reminding him and  the other experts that there have been others like Krystal (hinting at Colin Sheppard from the second season and Scott Schurink from the sixth season) that were given an opportunity to make a change, but never took it seriously enough. At the usual trophy presentation, Andrew says that he and the experts decided that, while not yet naming her the worst, Krystal did not deserve the traditional trophy normally awarded to the show's "winner," due to her failure to take their lessons to heart. Instead, the trophy is turned into a "Final Graduate" trophy and awarded to Tyler. Though  Andrew notes that his final drive proves he still has a lot to learn, he also congratulates Tyler for having turned himself around during the course of the season. This, therefore, leaves Krystal and Daniella as the final two (only the fourth time in the show's history that both of the final two are women and the third season in a row; Emily Wang and Ashley van Ham in the fourth season, Siham Martell and Chanie Richard in the tenth season and Polly Sargeant and Jillian Matthews in the previous season). After Tyler leaves, Andrew tells Daniella that while  she is not Canada's Worst Driver, she still fails to graduate due to her ultimately being unable to drive on the highway unaided, the one thing she wanted most out of rehab and leaves disappointed at this outcome. In the end, Krystal is named Canada's Worst Driver and not only becomes the twelfth person (eighth woman) to be named as such, but also the first "winner" "not" to be awarded the trophy, after which she shrugs and flips off Andrew when he turns away from her and then checks her phone.