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The Rhinoceros Party
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Posted By:
Rod
in the land of smarties.
Mar 22, 2005
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Okay people, here's a good hoax/joke/satirical political party for you.
And yes, for many years it was actually a registered political party.
The only news release that I remember actually hearing on the radio from them dealt with changing which side of the road you drive on in Canada.
Because of the fact that this was going to take a huge effort, they wanted to phase it in slowly.
Starting with tractor-trailers and buses.
They had all kinds of neat ideas, including:
- instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages
- tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, or moving them one metre west as a make-work project
- legalising pot. And pans. And spatulas. And other kitchen utensils
- annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory (after the Yukon and North-West Territories) in Canada's backyard, in order to raise the mean temperature of Canada by one degree celsius
- declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons
- offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montréal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)
"The party disbanded in 1993, when it chose to boycott that year's federal election due to new rules that deregistered any political party that did not run candidates in at least 50 ridings at a cost of $1,000 per candidature."
In 1980 they topped out with just a hair over 1% of the vote.
Answers.com has some info on these guys, here.
http://www.rhinoparty.ca/ is just a bunch of ads, mostly to do with stuffed animals and kids party supplies. Maybe someone out there actually WANTS a party with a bunch of rhinos, I dunno.
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Laurence Knowles
in Old Masset
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 | 07:14 PM
The rhinoceros party of Canada is still active and running in this election!
We have a leader running in Prince George BC the name is Mr. Turner.
He is 20-year-old university student before making statements people should check on the facts! |
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