The Rhino Party is Back

The NeoRhino Party only has seven candidates in the upcoming Federal election and all of them are running in Quebec. This party is the reincarnation of the Rhinoceros Party who reached their high water mark in the 1980 election when they received 110,286 votes and ran 120 candidates.

The Parti Rhinocéros, commonly known as the Rhinoceros Party in English was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Operating within the Canadian tradition of political satire the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo, their so-called primal promise, was "a promise to keep none of our promises." They then promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.

Platform promises of the Rhinoceros Party included:

• Repealing the law of gravity
• Paving Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot
• Providing higher education by building taller schools
• Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages
• Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset
• Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River
• Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space
• Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory, after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (Nunavut did not yet exist) in Canada's backyard, in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources
• Ending crime by abolishing all laws
• Paving the Bay of Fundy to create more parking in the Maritimes
• Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley
• Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last
• Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California
• Putting the national debt on Visa