'Big Brother Canada' Season 11 jury members praise 'queen Kuzie,' but have trust issues

Season 11 of Big Brother Canada has proven one thing: Absolutely anything can happen in this game.

The two most recent evictions saw Dan Szabo from Niagara Falls, Ont., and Jonathan Leonard from Newfoundland leave the show under high-stakes circumstances.

Dan became the first member of the jury for the season after the Invisible Head of Household (HoH), replaced Ty McDonald with Claudia Campbell, and Dan just didn't have enough votes to stay, being evicted with a unanimous decision.

For Jonathan, his eviction journey started when HoH Ty tried to execute a plan to get Santina Carlson out of the house, but Canada had the final say and saved her with the Belairdirect Protection Insurance vote. When Shanaya Carter won Power of Veto (POV), Shanaya took Renee Mior off the block, which led to Ty putting up Jonathan. He was sent to jury in a close four-to-three vote.

“I'm happy with the way my game went,” Jonathan told Yahoo Canada. “I'm happy with my time in the house. So I feel really good.”

“I wasn't surprised, a little sad saying goodbye to everybody because I feel like, me getting evicted, I could see how all the other houseguests felt about me. … I'm excited to hear about how things went in the house after I left.”

'The trust wasn't there' with Ty McDonald

One question that remains is how both Dan and Jonathan feel about Ty after their evictions.

"I did find out some information right before I left that kind of makes me question how much I should have trusted him," Dan told Yahoo Canada. "I think regardless of that, after my HoH week when I was kind of aligned with Zach [Neilson] and Ty, I do think they had my best interests at heart."

"So I have no hard feelings towards him and I feel like he has the same towards me. So I think we're on good terms."

For Jonathan, there's a distinction between how he personally feels about Ty, versus looking at Ty as a competitor.

“I respect him as a man, I think we have a lot of the same values and hold ourselves the same way,” Jonathan said. “Inside the house and on a game level, I think the two of us took different paths and it kind of caused us to go against each other."

“The trust wasn't there, it couldn't be there on a game level, but I think that he will have to really, really, really change his game to go far, because there's a big target on his back. And then with the eviction of me, I feel like that target grew, regardless of how many times you say you didn't want that, it happened and the target is there."

'Somebody in The Crown is going to win number one'

Jonathan also has strong feelings that The Crown alliance will see the end of the game, particularly calling out Kuzie Mujakachi as a possible winner.

“I feel like somebody in The Crown is going to win number one, and I feel like someone else in The Crown is going to get number two,” he predicted.

“My number one pick, who I think has got all the tools to get there, is my queen Kuzie. I think that she's very strategic, she has a great leadership sense about her and she has great people around her that will do anything to help protect her, and she will do the same for them. She has respect in the house and people fear her in the house, but she has a healthy amount of both.”

Dan echoed Jonathan's comments. He also believes Kuzie from Victoria, B.C., is most likely to win Season 11.

"She has a really good alliance with Anika [Mysha] and Daniel [Clarke]," Dan said.

"She's very strong socially, and she's strong physically too. She can win competitions. So I think she is really set up to go far in this game."

When it comes to evaluating who the remaining houseguests should watch out for, that's where Dan and Jonathan differed.

For Jonathan, he thinks Ty is the most untrustworthy person in the house.

“He doesn't have any true relationships in the house," Jonathan said. "I think he's trying to plant seeds in people's minds to doubt other people."

"He's trying to, not build alliances with other people, but distract them with other game players.”

When Dan was evicted, he said he believed Santina was the most untrustworthy person in the house, thinking that she was the invisible HoH before he was evicted.

"I think she's not really closely aligned with too many people, so I think she's going to have to think on her feet and kind of work her way through all these different alliances," he highlighted.

The downfall of the 'guys alliance'

When it comes to evaluating how these jury members played the game, looking back, both Jonathan and Dan would have adjusted their strategy.

“We kind of forced a guys alliance and I kind of was comfortable with that, because ... I'm a very trusting person,” Jonathan said. “I felt like I had trouble trusting that alliance and it came out when my guy Rob [Lopez] got backdoored.”

“So if I could change anything, I wouldn't be rushing into an alliance because, as you've seen with The Crown, something that isn't forced, it grows into something beautiful."

For Dan, he said he would have re-thought his decision about aligning with Zach specifically.

"I think aligning with Zach early on could have been a detriment to my game," Dan said. "I was desperately looking for a number one, someone I could trust early on in the game."

"I thought that would be really good and I expressed that to Zach, and he seemed to have those feelings reciprocated. But looking back, I found out that he had a lot of alliances elsewhere. So I think that's something that I would have done differently."

Big Brother Canada Season 11 airs three nights a week, with new episodes every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (Head of Household), Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT (Power of Veto) and Thursday at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (Eviction).