Rhinoceros Party, officially the Parti Rhinoceros Party, is a Canadian federal-level political party.
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10 Facts About Rhinoceros Party
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Rhinoceros Party has said that he named the new party for the Rhinoceros Party and for Neo, the Matrix character.
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Rhinoceros Party was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Some members of the Rhino party would call themselves Marxist-Lennonist, a parody of the factional split between the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada, although the Rhinoceros Party meant the term in reference to Groucho Marx and John Lennon.
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Bryan Gold of the Rhinoceros Party described the party platform as two feet high and made of wood: "My platform is the one I'm standing on".
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Rhinoceros Party took a stand on abortion and capital punishment: "If it was good enough for my grandfather, then it's good enough for me".
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Rhino Rhinoceros Party declared that, should they somehow actually win an election, they would immediately dissolve and force a second election: "We Rhinos think that elections are so much fun, we want to hold them all the time".
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Rhinoceros Party never succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Commons.
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The Rhinoceros Party ran 12 candidates in the 1972 election, but was not recognized as a registered party by Elections Canada, and therefore its candidates were listed as independents.
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Rhinoceros 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.
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