In Canada, there is a federal political party Rhinos

Rhino Party, the Party of rhinoceros or Canadian Party Rhinos (Eng. Lang. Rhinoceros Party) - a Canadian federal political party. Referred to in English Canada as the Second Rhinoceros Party. The party was organized in Montreal on May 21, 2006, it had the right to register August 16, 2007, and the official status of a political party received 23 August 2007. The party is the successor to the Canadian Party rhinos that existed from 1963 to 1993. Candidates from parties promise, like all their predecessors, in any case do not fulfill their campaign promises.

In 1958, in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), several journalists decided to make a joke, put up for the elections of the local city council 5-year-old female rhino named Cacareco. "It is better to vote for Rhino than a donkey!" - This call activists appealed to the residents of Sao Paulo. Then the voters themselves have entered the name of the candidate on the paper ballot. As a result, Kakareka scored 100,000 votes, or 15% of the total. The election was canceled and held again, this time without a rhinoceros.

The story at the time was inspired by the Canadian doctor and physicist Jacques Feron the creation in 1963 of the Party of rhinos. He was supported by Quebec intellectuals. The founders of the party chose its leader Cornelius First, a rhinoceros from the Granby Zoo. Since Cornelius immortalized in the official logo of the party. According Feron rhinos and politicians have much in common: they are thick-skinned, dull, but when they feel the danger of running away with frightening speed.

The main slogans of the Party of Rhinos:

1. Cancel the law of gravity.

2. asphalting entire Canadian provinces - Manitoba, to create the largest car park in the world.

3. Improvement of higher education due to the construction of higher institutions.

4. Set English, French and obscene as the official languages ​​of Canada.

5. Reducing the height of the Rocky Mountains to the inhabitants of the town of Albert could see the sunset.

6. Create from Montreal "North American Venice" at the expense of digging extra channels on the St.. Lawrence.

7. Cancel the environment, t. To. it is too difficult to keep clean and in general it takes a lot of space.

8. Joining the United States to Canada.

9. The elimination of crime, due to the abolition of all laws.

10. The transformation of streets St. Catherine in Montreal, the world's largest bowling.

11. Translation country to drive on the left for 5 years. Starting with large trucks and tractors, and then buses and then cars and cyclists.

12. For Sale Upper House of Parliament on the antiquities auction in California.

1 3. The declaration of war in Belgium, t. To. one of its cartoon characters, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons.

14. The proposal to abolish war Belgium, if she agrees to deliver a box of mussels, and a case of beer (by the way, Belgium did so through its embassy in Canada).

15. Drawing the boundaries of the sea brushes to Canadian fish always knew where the sea, and where the land has already begun.

16. The prohibition of weapons and oil, ie. a. both killed.

17. The prohibition of winter.

18. Create on the Trans-line one-way traffic.

19. The Canadian currency is to be chewing gum. Then the country's budget can easily inflate and deflate.

20. Counting all the islands to see not stolen there any America.

To date, the candidates of the Party Rhinos never won the election, but not looking at it stubbornly continues to run for the federal government of Canada.

Source: www.strannoe.info

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