The Rhino Party Of Canada

[fanforever1986]

Not sure how many people have heard of this, but it's Canadian politics at it's best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada

[Cheese]

HEARD of them? Hell I voted for them LOL....a great party!

They had the best party platforms!

• Eliminating Canada’s national debt by transferring it to Quebec so that it will disappear when that province separates.
• Correcting the fiscal imbalance by moving the federal government to Calgary.
• Raising the average temperature in Canada by selling the three territories to Mexico.
• Turning Ottawa into one, giant day care centre.
• repealing the law of gravity
• paving the province of Manitoba to create the world’s largest parking lot
• instituting illiteracy as Canada’s third official language
• tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset; this would also have the benefit of providing Albertans with a few extra minutes of daylight
• building sloping bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could “coast from coast to coast”
• annexing the United States, which would take its place as just another Territory in Canada’s backyard, in order to raise the average national temperature
• breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that “the little buggers will freeze to death”
• turning Montreal’s rue Ste-Catherine into the world’s longest bowling alley
• selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California
• painting Canada’s coastal sea limits on the bottom of the ocean so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times
• Called on the Yukon Territory to change its name to GroupAction, and to invoice the federal government for $250-million in sponsorship fees.
• Urged genetic modification of exotic animals so that they can live in the Yukon and battle it out on the streets of Whitehorse to increase tourism. “This will also give us an opportunity to answer that age-old question: Can a polar bear kick a lion’s ass?”
• repealing the law of gravity
• paving the province of Manitoba to create the world’s largest parking lot
• instituting illiteracy as Canada’s third official language
• building sloping bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could “coast from coast to coast”
• annexing the United States, which would take its place as just another Territory in Canada’s backyard, in order to raise the average national temperature
• breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that “the little buggers will freeze to death”
• turning Montreal’s rue Ste-Catherine into the world’s longest bowling alley
• selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California
• painting Canada’s coastal sea limits on the bottom of the ocean so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times
• counting the Thousand Islands to make sure none are missing
• banning lousy Canadian winters.
• a vow to make bubble gum Canada’s new currency
• higher education by building taller schools
• the guaranteed annual orgasm
• putting the party back into political party (the whole reason for the Rhinos)
• a promise to immediately resign if, by error, any of its candidates was actually elected
• sensible erections
• a national bake sale to eliminate the National Debt
• raising all streets 30 feet off the ground to prevent pedestrian fatalities
• lowering the boiling point of water to save energy
• creating a cartel of the world’s snow producing countries, call it “Snowpec”, and export snow to cool down the Middle East conflict
• putting wheels under the West Edmonton Mall so it could tour Canada
• bringing back the good old English system of driving on the left-hand side of the road, but as a phase-in buses and trucks will remain driving on the right-hand side in the first year
• putting the “mock” in “demockracy”
• moving Prince Edward Island into Lake Ontario to move it closer to Central Canada.

[fanforever1986]

lowering the boiling point of water to save energy

...that one really cracks me up for some reason...lol...

this ones not bad...

Urged genetic modification of exotic animals so that they can live in the Yukon and battle it out on the streets of Whitehorse to increase tourism. “This will also give us an opportunity to answer that age-old question: Can a polar bear kick a lion’s ass?”

[Looger]

i thought they stopped running due to that $5000 fee?

if they're back that's good news, they are 'the onion' of political parties.

[Calgaryborn]

I think I had a cousin or two vote for them on the coast.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Looger

i thought they stopped running due to that $5000 fee?

if they're back that's good news, they are 'the onion' of political parties.

The party abstained from the 1993 federal election while they questioned the constitutionality of new rules that required the party to run candidates in at least 50 ridings at a cost of $1,000 per candidature. On September 23, 1993, Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, refused to accept the party's abstention and ordered the removal of the Rhinoceros Party from the Registry of Canadian Political Parties, effectively eliminating them from the Canadian political system.

[JohnnyFlame]

They were done in by some stupid self serving legislation brought in because the Rhino's were on the verge of being a serious thorn in the side of the major parties.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

I remember in '95 some members (or I guess former members) of the Rhino Party put together a proposal for a new arena for the Winnipeg Jets.

It would be an outdoor arena and as a result it could be built under budget. They even had a model built to show their design.

The funny part was when someone asked "what about games that are played in late April and May?" and they replied, "the Jets never make the playoffs anyway!"

[Vulcan]

They got my vote when they promised to build a submarine base at Chestermere Lake.

[Azure]

That is how politics were meant to be...