First, RL, yes. A riding is like a district for voting purposes.
And, Wendy, thanks for the info. I went to the website, and it directed me to Wikipedia to read about the past history of the party. It says that the basic credo of the party was “a promise to keep none of our promises.” - Now, that to me is an honest political party!
It then goes on to state some of their more famous promises:
1. Paving Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot
2. Repealing the Law of Gravity
3. Providing higher education by building taller schools
4. Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages
5. Tearing down the Rocky Mountain so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset
6. Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River
7. Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space
8. 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
9. Ending crime by abolishing all laws
10. Paving the Bay of Fundy to create more parking in the Maritimes
11. Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley
12. 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
13. Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California
14. Putting the national debt on Visa
15. Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons
16. 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 Montrééal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)
17. Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times
18. Banning guns and butter, since both kill
19. Banning lousy Canadian winters
20. Renaming the country Nantucket
21. Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.
22. Making the Trans-Canada Highway one way only.
23. Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.
24. Donate a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada
25. Counting the 1000 Islands to see if the Americans have stolen any
26. The Rhino Party also declared that, should they somehow actually win an election, they would immediately dissolve and force a second election.
Now... who wouldn't support a platform like that?
For more information, you can look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada
