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{{Short description|Joke political party in Canada}}
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| name          = Parti Rhinocéros Party
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| leader        = Sébastien CoRhino<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino|title = Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration|date = August 20, 2021|access-date = March 31, 2021|archive-date = April 1, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210401051228/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino|url-status = live}}</ref>
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| headquarters  = 454 Tessier Street, [[Rimouski]], Québec G5L 4L1
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[[File:Neorhino.gif|thumb|right|Logo used from 2006 to 2010]]
The '''Rhinoceros Party''', officially the '''Parti Rhinocéros Party''',<ref>{{cite web |title=Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration |url=https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?dir=par&document=index&lang=e&section=pol |website=[[Elections Canada]] |access-date=18 September 2021 |archive-date=July 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706201937/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e |url-status=live }}</ref> is a Canadian federal [[List of frivolous political parties|political party]]. It originally existed from 1963 to 1993. It was refounded in Montreal on May 21, 2006, and was registered with [[Elections Canada]] on August 23, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino|title=Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration|first=Elections|last=Canada|website=www.elections.ca|access-date=December 6, 2018|archive-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203094856/https://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino|url-status=live}}</ref> It was known as '''neorhino.ca''' until 2010 when the party changed its name and logo.

The party was founded by [[François Gourd|François "Yo" Gourd]], who was involved with the original incarnation of the Rhinoceros Party. He has said that he named the new party (then under the name "neorhino") after the Rhinoceros Party and [[Neo (The Matrix)|Neo]], the ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' character.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rhinos return to Canadian political landscape|url=http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=06741687-dc70-4c22-93ee-63135b0e57f6&sponsor=|work=Canada.com|publisher=CanWest|access-date=November 23, 2011|date=February 29, 2008|archive-date=April 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405000934/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=06741687-dc70-4c22-93ee-63135b0e57f6&sponsor=|url-status=live}}</ref> The party is led by Sébastien Côrriveau<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208133541/http://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |url=http://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#neorhino |title=Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration |website=Elections Canada }}</ref> (who used the names "Sébastien CôRhino Côrriveau" and "Sébastien CoRhino" when running in the 2015 and 2019 federal elections, respectively<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=pas/42ge/can/QC&document=index&lang=e |access-date=October 30, 2019 |title=List of Candidates for the 42nd General Election: Quebec |website=Elections Canada |year=2015 |archive-date=November 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104155251/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=pas/42ge/can/QC&document=index&lang=e |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://monsaintroch.com/2019/elections-federales-jean-yves-duclos-lemporte-par-215-voix/ |website=Mon Saint-Roch |author=Amélie Légaré |date=October 22, 2019 |access-date=October 30, 2019 |title=Élections fédérales: Jean-Yves Duclos l'emporte par 215 voix |archive-date=October 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030051148/http://monsaintroch.com/2019/elections-federales-jean-yves-duclos-lemporte-par-215-voix/ |url-status=live }}</ref>). It promises, like its predecessor, not to keep any of its promises if elected.<ref name="nantucket">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/07/rhino-election.html|title=Rhino party escapes extinction to run in September byelection|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=August 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109030040/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2007/08/07/rhino-election.html|archive-date=November 9, 2012}}</ref>

=={{anchor|Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–93)}}Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–1993)==
{{Infobox political party
| name = Rhinoceros Party of Canada
| native_name = Parti Rhinocéros
| _subheader = Former&nbsp;federal&nbsp;party
| logo = Rhino logo.jpg
| leader = [[Cornelius the First]]
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| founder = [[Jacques Ferron]]
| foundation = 1963
| dissolution = 1993
| merger = 
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| ideology = [[Satire]]<br />[[Joke political party|Frivolous]]<br />[[Animals as electoral candidates]]
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| country = Canada
| parties_dab1 = List of federal political parties in Canada
| elections_dab1 = List of Canadian federal general elections
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The '''Rhinoceros Party''' ({{lang-fr|Parti Rhinocéros}}) was a registered [[political party]] in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Operating within the tradition of political [[satire]], the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo, their so-called primal promise, was "a promise to keep none of our promises".<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rhino-party-escapes-extinction-to-run-in-september-byelection-1.664111?ref=rss|title = Rhino party escapes extinction to run in September byelection|publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date = August 7, 2007|access-date = October 4, 2007|archive-date = March 8, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308052435/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rhino-party-escapes-extinction-to-run-in-september-byelection-1.664111?ref=rss|url-status = live}}</ref>  They then promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://gl.yorku.ca/monglendon.nsf/992addabf75a2dcd8525727c0069afd7/37003a7524d4d4b5852571020059fa03?OpenDocument|title = A Writer's Voices – A Celebration of Jacques Ferron at Glendon|author = Marika Kemeny|publisher = York University|access-date = August 29, 2019|archive-date = January 14, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090114070513/http://gl.yorku.ca/monglendon.nsf/992addabf75a2dcd8525727c0069afd7/37003a7524d4d4b5852571020059fa03?OpenDocument|url-status = dead}}</ref>

The Rhinos were started in 1963 by [[Jacques Ferron]],<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rhinoceros-party/|title = Rhinoceros Party|publisher = The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date = September 23, 2017|archive-date = December 16, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171216101254/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rhinoceros-party/|url-status = live}}</ref> "Éminence de la Grande Corne du parti Rhinocéros". In the 1970s, a group of artists joined the party and created a comedic [[political platform]] to contest the federal election. Ferron (1979), poet [[Gaston Miron]] (1972), and singer [[Michel Rivard (musician)|Michel Rivard]] (1980) ran against [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Pierre Trudeau]] in his Montreal seat.

The party claimed to be the spiritual descendants of [[Cacareco]], a Brazilian [[rhinoceros]] who was [[Animals as electoral candidates#Examples|"elected" member]] of [[São Paulo (city)|São Paulo]]'s [[city council]] in 1958, and listed [[Cornelius the First]], a rhinoceros from the [[Granby Zoo]], east of Montreal, as its leader.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070808.RHINO08/TPStory/National|title = After years of near-extinction, the whacky Rhino party is back|author = Ingrid Peritz|publisher = The Globe and Mail|date = August 8, 2007}}</ref> It declared that the rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are: "thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, can move fast as hell when in danger, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces".<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/0112/election.htm|title = Federal election in dire need of laughs|publisher = FFWD Weekly|author = Evan Kayne|date = January 12, 2006|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927013621/http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/0112/election.htm|archive-date = September 27, 2007}}</ref>

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 (Marxist-Leninist)]], although the Rhinoceros Party meant the term in reference to [[Groucho Marx]] and [[John Lennon]].<ref>There is [[How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All|a 1969 comedy record]] by [[The Firesign Theatre]] troupe popularly known as "All Hail Marx and Lennon" which makes the same joke.</ref>

The party used as its logo [[Dürer's Rhinoceros|a woodcut of a rhinoceros]] by [[Albrecht Dürer]], with the words ''D'une mare à l'autre'' (a French translation of Canada's [[Latin]] motto ''a mari usque ad mare'', playing on the word ''mare'', which means ''pond'' in French<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pIg1AAAAIBAJ&pg=6696,3988336&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Rhinoceros Party goes head-hunting this time. | last = Ambroziak | first = Alycia | newspaper = [[Montreal Gazette]] | date = June 14, 1974 | page = 8 | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = October 23, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211023220716/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pIg1AAAAIBAJ&pg=6696%2C3988336&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>) at the top.

===Policies and politics===
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In addition to the national platform promises released by the party leadership, individual candidates also had considerable freedom to campaign on their own ideas and slogans. Bryan Gold of the Rhinoceros Party described the party [[political platform|platform]] as two feet high and made of wood: "My platform is the one I'm standing on". A candidate named Ted "not too" Sharp ran in [[Flora MacDonald (politician)|Flora MacDonald]]'s [[Kingston and the Islands (federal electoral district)|Kingston and the Islands]] riding with the campaign slogan "[[Fauna (animals)|Fauna]], not [[flora (plants)|flora]]", promising to give fauna equal representation.<ref name="Bill Whitelow">{{Cite news|title = Rhinoceros party wants island count|author = Bill Whitelow|date = January 22, 1980|publisher = The Whig-Standard}}</ref> He also took a stand on abortion (promising, if elected, never to have an abortion) and capital punishment: "If it was good enough for my grandfather, then it's good enough for me". To strengthen Canada's military, Sharp planned to tow Antarctica north to the Arctic Circle: "Once we have Antarctica, we'll control all of the world's cold. If another Cold War starts, we'll be unbeatable".<ref>{{Cite news|title = Flora running scared, Rhino candidate claims|author = Beth McKenzie|date = January 25, 1980|publisher = The Queen's Journal}}</ref>

In the [[1988 Canadian federal election|1988 election]], the Rhinoceros Party ran a candidate named John Turner in the same riding as [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] leader [[John Turner]], and received 760 votes.<ref name = "DEPTH">{{Cite news|url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/rhino-party/index.html|title = The Rhinoceros Party|publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date = August 8, 2007|access-date = October 4, 2007|archive-date = July 3, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070703045949/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/rhino-party/index.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> Penny Hoar, a safe sex activist, distributed condoms in Toronto while running under the slogan: "Politicians screw you—protect yourself".<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.walnet.org/csis/people/index.html|title = Whore Heroines and Heroes|publisher = Commercial Sex Information Services|date = March 3, 2004|access-date = August 29, 2019|archive-date = November 4, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191104122850/https://walnet.org/csis/people/index.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
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====1979 campaign====
*Government:
**The [[Queen of Canada]] would be seated in [[Buckingham, Quebec]].<ref name = "CITIZENAPRIL261979">{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Vb4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=7160,2875812&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Rhinoceros Party promises pie in the face | last = Drouin | first = Linda | newspaper = The [[Ottawa Citizen]] | date = April 26, 1979 | pages = 8 | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = October 20, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211020163537/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Vb4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=7160%2C2875812&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>
**Rather than awarding money as prizes in the lottery, the winners would be appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]].<ref name = "CITIZENAPRIL261979" />
**Rather than [[Canada Act 1982|patriate the constitution by bringing it to Canada]], as proposed by [[Pierre Trudeau]], the Rhinoceros Party pledged to bring Great Britain home and make it Canada's eleventh province.<ref name = "TIMESMAY141979">{{Cite news| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GfwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2198,5510653&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Rhinos ride roughshod over Canadian issues | last = Landrey | first = Wilbur | newspaper = [[St. Petersburg Times]] | date = May 14, 1979 | pages = 7–A}}</ref>
*Energy:
**Building one [[nuclear power]] plant per household, including monthly distributions of lead underwear to Canadians.  Indoor lighting would then be provided by radioactive citizens.<ref name = "GAZETTEMAY101979">{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d2IxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6855,2411650&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Rhinoceros Party charges into election fray | last = Tetley | first = Jane | date = May 10, 1979 | newspaper = The Montreal Gazette | pages = 4 | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = October 31, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211031075139/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d2IxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6855%2C2411650&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>
**Burning all the standing barns in Canada to provide energy, under the slogan ''Burn a barn for Britain''.<ref name = "GAZETTEMAY101979" />
*Gender issues:
**[[Alimony]] payments would go directly to the federal government, and responsibility for withholding those payments would fall upon the federal government.<ref name = "GAZETTEMAY101979" />
**Men would be allowed to work as prostitutes, [[wet nurse]]s, secretaries and receptionists.<ref name = "GAZETTEMAY101979" />

====1984 campaign====
*Economy
**The Rhinoceros Party pledged to eliminate small businesses, and replace them with very small businesses, having less than one employee.<ref name = "GAZETTEMARCH221984">{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=diwyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5691,884226&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Oh, Boy – The Rhinoceros Party's at it again | last = SCHNURMACHER | first = Thomas | newspaper = The Montreal Gazette | date = March 22, 1984 | pages = D-9 | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = November 2, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211102164050/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=diwyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5691%2C884226&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>
**Candidate Graham Ashley, standing in [[Ottawa-Vanier]], pledged to take Canada off the [[Gold Standard]], and implement a Snow Standard, which would improve the economy until the summer.<ref name = "CITIZENFEBRUARY111980">{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fq4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=3803,4948927&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Graham Ashley, Rhinoceros Party | date = February 11, 1980 | newspaper = The Ottawa Citizen | pages = 5 | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = October 21, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211021010326/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fq4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=3803%2C4948927&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>
*Public works
**Candidate Stardust the Magician promised to put a roof on [[Olympic Stadium (Montreal)|the Olympic Stadium]], using only a $25-million handkerchief.<ref name = "CITIZENAUGUST111984">{{Cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m9EyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3483,19910&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | title = Rhinoceros Party heralds backing of gravediggers | pages = 4 | date = August 11, 1984 | newspaper = The Ottawa Citizen | access-date = October 16, 2020 | archive-date = November 2, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211102164052/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m9EyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3483%2C19910&dq=rhinoceros-party&hl=en | url-status = live }}</ref>

==== Other campaigns ====
Other platform promises of the Rhinoceros Party included:
* Repealing the [[law of gravity]]<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D9163BF932A35756C0A963948260|title = Canada Rhino Party Thunders Off Softly|work = [[The New York Times]]|agency = Associated Press|date = May 1, 1985|access-date = August 29, 2019|archive-date = September 26, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230926200217/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/01/world/canada-rhino-party-thunders-off-softly.html|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name = "DAN" />
* Providing higher education by building taller schools<ref name = "DEPTH" /><ref name=presse2013 />
* Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages<ref name = "DEPTH" />
* Tearing down the [[Rocky Mountains]] so that Albertans could see the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] sunset<ref name = "DAN" />
* Eliminating unemployment by abolishing Statistics Canada, thereby eliminating the bureaucrats that measure unemployment.<ref>{{cite web|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iain|title=Vancouver Sun columnist|url=https://nationalpost.com/m/cuts+likely+wake+review+varsity+sports/9397440/story.html|website=National Post|access-date=November 25, 2015}}</ref>
* Making Montreal the [[Venice]] of North America by damming the [[St. Lawrence River]]<ref name="AIB">{{Cite news|url = http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/news/367|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071215013704/http://apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/news/367|url-status = dead|archive-date = December 15, 2007|title = After years of near-extinction, the whacky Rhino party is back|author = Ingrid Peritz|publisher = The Globe and Mail|date = August 8, 2007}}</ref>
* Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space<ref name = "DEPTH" />
* Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory in Canada's backyard (after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories—Nunavut did not yet exist), in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources<ref name = "RHEAL" />
* Ending crime by abolishing all laws<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/082307/news2.html|title = Back from extinction|publisher = The Montreal Mirror|author = Patrick Lejtenyi|access-date = October 4, 2007|archive-date = October 7, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081007113620/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/082307/news2.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
* To provide more parking in the Maritimes by paving the [[Bay of Fundy]], and to create the world's largest parking by paving the province of Manitoba<ref name = "DEPTH" /><ref name = "DAN">{{Cite news|url = http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2004/analysiscommentary/columns/danbrown190604.html|title = The Heirs of the Rhino Party|author = Dan Brown|date = June 19, 2004|publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date = October 4, 2007|archive-date = October 18, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071018033129/http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2004/analysiscommentary/columns/danbrown190604.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
* Turning Montreal's [[Saint Catherine Street]] into the world's longest bowling alley<ref name = "DEPTH" />
* Amending Canada's Freedom of Information Act: "Nothing is free anymore; Canadians should have to pay for their information".<ref name="Doug Ronson">{{Cite news|title = Ted "not too" Sharp advocates lawn flamingo tax deductibility |author = Doug Ronson|date = January 17, 1980|publisher = The Queen's Journal}}</ref>
* Making the Canadian climate more temperate by tapping into the natural resource of hot air in Ottawa.<ref name="Doug Ronson"/>
* Storing nuclear waste in the Senate: "After all, we've been storing political waste there for years".<ref name="Doug Ronson"/>
* Adopting the British system of [[Right- and left-hand traffic|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 and wheelchairs last.<ref name = "CITIZENAPRIL261979" />
* Selling the [[Senate of Canada]] at an antique auction in California<ref name = "DAN" /><ref name = "RHEAL">From the campaign literature of Judi Skuce, candidate for The Beaches, in the 1979 election.</ref>
* Putting the national debt on [[Visa (company)|Visa]]<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=92596c7d-467a-4ce2-b092-3cc60cb62042|title = Longtime Rhino candidate dies of cancer at 63 years of age|author = Joanna Habdank|date = October 12, 2006|publisher = The Vancouver Sun|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121110083833/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=92596c7d-467a-4ce2-b092-3cc60cb62042|archive-date = November 10, 2012}}</ref>
* Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, [[The Adventures of Tintin|Tintin]], killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons<ref name=presse2013>{{cite news|title=Ne tirez pas sur le rhinocéros! {{!}} Jean-Simon Gagné {{!}} Politique|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/politique/201309/27/01-4694075-ne-tirez-pas-sur-le-rhinoceros.php|access-date=November 1, 2016|work=La Presse|language=fr-CA|archive-date=November 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101104840/http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/politique/201309/27/01-4694075-ne-tirez-pas-sur-le-rhinoceros.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="FORCES">{{Cite web|url = http://www.forces.org/canada/news-archive/092003.htm|title = Dateline-Montreal Grand Prix update|publisher = [[Forces Canada]]|date = September 5, 2003|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070625142517/http://www.forces.org/canada/news-archive/092003.htm|archive-date = June 25, 2007}}</ref>
* 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 Montreal (the [[Embassy of Belgium, Ottawa|Belgian Embassy in Ottawa]] ''did'', in fact, do this)<ref name=presse2013 /><ref name = "FORCES" />
* Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times<ref name = "AIB" />
* Banning [[guns and butter]], since both kill<ref name = "AIB" />
* Banning lousy Canadian winters<ref name = "DEPTH" />
* Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.<ref name="ReferenceA">Dr. Robinson, ''Introductory Canadian Politics''</ref>
* Making the [[Trans-Canada Highway]] one way only.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://rhinoparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=37 | title = yo, csis, here's your chance | author = Brian Salmi | publisher = Rhinoceros Party of Canada | access-date = February 20, 2008 | archive-date = March 11, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080311012314/http://rhinoparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=37 | url-status = live }}</ref>
* Donating a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada<ref name = "RHEAL" />
* Counting the [[Thousand Islands]] to see if the Americans have stolen any<ref name="Bill Whitelow"/>
* Knocking down the Rocky Mountains and building giant bicycle paths sloping downhill in both directions, so Canadians could coast from coast to coast.<ref>The Globe and Mail: [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-thick-skinned-ex-rhino-offers-his-take-on-debates-mustaches-and-sovereignty/article740645/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413004002/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-thick-skinned-ex-rhino-offers-his-take-on-debates-mustaches-and-sovereignty/article740645/|date=April 13, 2021}} Retrieved on 13 October 2020</ref>
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The Rhino Party also 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".<ref>{{Cite news|title = Flora running scared, Rhino candidate claims |author = Beth McKenzie|date = January 25, 1980|publisher = The Queen's Journal}}</ref> They also declared victory after one election, claiming all candidates were Rhinoceroses, whether they knew or acknowledged it: thick-skinned, short-sighted, mean-tempered, etc.

===Notable candidates===
Michel Rivard once went on television  (during free air time given to political parties) and stated: "I have but two things to say to you: Celery and Sidewalk. Thank you, good night".

A British Columbia splinter group proposed running a professional [[dominatrix]] for the position of [[party whip]], renaming "British Columbia" to "La La Land", moving the provincial capital, and merging with the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative Party]] so as "not to split the silly vote".

Although not recognized in the United States, former baseball pitcher [[Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)|Bill Lee]] ran for President of the United States in 1988 on the Rhinoceros Party ticket.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48705-2005Feb23.html|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|author = Jonathan Yardley|date = February 24, 2005|title = Low and Inside|page = CO2|access-date = August 29, 2019|archive-date = August 29, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190829190037/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48705-2005Feb23.html|url-status = live}}</ref>

In the [[2019 Canadian federal election]], the Rhinoceros Party ran a candidate named Maxime Bernier in the riding of [[Beauce (electoral district)|Beauce]] against the incumbent,  [[Maxime Bernier]], leader of the [[People's Party of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/2019/09/10/take-a-chance-vote-for-both-satirical-party-runs-own-candidate-named-maxime-bernier-in-ppc-leaders-riding.html|title=Satirical party runs own candidate named Maxime Bernier in PPC leader's riding {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=September 10, 2019|language=en|access-date=October 6, 2019|archive-date=October 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006005552/https://www.thestar.com/politics/2019/09/10/take-a-chance-vote-for-both-satirical-party-runs-own-candidate-named-maxime-bernier-in-ppc-leaders-riding.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Neither candidate won, with both being defeated by Conservative Party candidate [[Richard Lehoux]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maxime-bernier-loses-beauce-1.5329969|title=People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier defeated in Quebec riding of Beauce|access-date=October 22, 2019|archive-date=October 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023011233/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maxime-bernier-loses-beauce-1.5329969|url-status=live}}</ref> Rhino candidate Bernier managed 1084 votes. Even if all of these had gone to incumbent Bernier, who managed 16,796 votes, it still wouldn't have been enough to change the result. Lehoux received 22,860 votes.<ref>https://www.elections.ca/res/rep/off/ovr2019app/51/10971e.html</ref>

===Electoral record===
The Rhinoceros Party never succeeded in winning a seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]]. In the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 federal election]], however, the party won the fourth-largest number of votes, after the three main political parties, but ahead of several well-established minor parties. Rhino candidates sometimes came in second in certain [[Riding (division)|ridings]], humiliating traditional Canadian parties in the process. In the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 federal election]], for instance, the Rhinoceros party nominated a professional clown/comedian named Sonia "Chatouille" Côté ("chatouille" means "Tickles" in French) in the [[Laurier (federal electoral district)|Laurier]] riding in Montréal. Côté came in second place, after the successful [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] candidate, but ahead of both other major parties: the third place [[New Democratic Party of Canada|New Democrat]], and the fourth-place Progressive Conservative candidate.<ref>{{Cite web|url =http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Gres&genElection=32&ridProvince=10&submit1=Search |publisher = Parliament of Canada|title = History of Federal Ridings since 1867}}</ref> Chatouille received almost twice as many votes as the PC candidate.

Early in the party's history, when it was mainly composed of French-speaking Québécois, they chose their only unilingual anglophone party member as their official translator.

===Electoral results===
{| class="wikitable"
! Election
! # of candidates nominated
! # of seats won
! # of total votes
! % of popular vote
! % of vote in ridings contested
|-
! [[1965 Canadian federal election|1965]]
| {{center| 2}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center|  618<ref>Montreal Gazette (October 26, 1965) "Quebec Leads With 328 In Field"</ref>}}
| {{center|  0.00%}}
| {{center| undetermined}}
|-
! [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968]]
| {{center| 1}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 354}}
| {{center| 0.00%}}
| {{center| undetermined}}
|-
! [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972]] (1)
| {{center| 1}}
| {{center|  0}}
| {{center| 1,565}}
| {{center| 0.02%}}
| {{center| undetermined}}
|-
! [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979]]
| {{center| 63}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 62,601}}
| {{center| 0.55%}}
| {{center| 2.32%}}
|-
! [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980]]
| {{center| 120}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 110,286}}
| {{center| 1.01%}}
| {{center| 2.43%}}
|-
! [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]]
| {{center| 88}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 98,171}}
| {{center|  0.78%}}
| {{center| 2.39%}}
|-
! [[1988 Canadian federal election|1988]]
| {{center|  74}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 52,173}}
| {{center| 0.40%}}
| {{center| 1.47%}}
|-
! [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015]]
| {{center|  27}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 7,263}}
| {{center| 0.04%}}
| {{center| 0.52%}}
|-
! [[2019 Canadian federal election|2019]]
| {{center|  39}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 9,567 }}
| {{center| 0.05%}}
| {{center| 0.46%}}
|-
! [[2021 Canadian federal election|2021]]
| {{center| 27}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 6,085 }}
| {{center| 0.04%}}
|  
|-
! [[2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election|2024]]
| {{center| 1}}
| {{center| 0}}
| {{center| 51 }}
| {{center| 0.1%}}
|  
|}

'''Note:'''

(1) 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. (Source: ''[[Toronto Star]]'', October 31, 1972.)

===1993 abstention and subsequent dissolution===
The party abstained from the [[1993 Canadian federal election|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/050197/news6.html|title = Marginal characters – A guide to some of Canada's lesser-known political parties|author = Paul Hellyer|publisher = [[Montreal Mirror]]|date = May 1, 1997|access-date = April 13, 2011|archive-date = August 17, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070817133624/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/050197/news6.html|url-status = live}}</ref>  On September 23, 1993, Canada's [[Chief Electoral Officer (Canada)|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. Kingsley also directed the party's official agent, Charlie (le Concierge) McKenzie, to liquidate all party assets and return any revenues to the Receiver General of Canada. On instructions from the party, McKenzie refused. After two years of threatening letters, Ottawa refused to prosecute McKenzie, who now claims to hold the distinction of being Canada's "least-wanted [[fugitive]]".

In 2001, Brian "Godzilla" Salmi, who received his nickname because of the [[Godzilla]] suit he wore while campaigning, tried to revive the Rhinoceros Party to contest the [[2001 British Columbia general election|British Columbia provincial election]]. While they pulled some pranks that earned some media coverage, only two of its candidates (Liar Liar in [[Vancouver-Mount Pleasant]] and Helvis in [[Vancouver-Burrard (provincial electoral district)|Vancouver-Burrard]]) appeared on the ballots, as the party claimed the $1000 candidate registration fee was a financial hardship. Unregistered candidates included [[Geoff Berner]], who received national wire service coverage for promising "cocaine and whores to potential investors".<ref>[http://lawiscool.com/2007/09/19/sa-tan-sues-the-queen/ "Sa Tan Sues the Queen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104122848/http://lawiscool.com/2007/09/19/sa-tan-sues-the-queen/ |date=November 4, 2019 }}. lawiscool.com, September 29, 2007.</ref> The party disbanded shortly thereafter.

==Successors==
[[François Gourd]], a prominent Rhino, later started another political movement, the [[entartistes]], who attracted attention in the 1990s by planting cream pies in the faces of various Canadian politicians.<ref name=snipers>"Pied snipers". ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]'', January 31, 1999.</ref> In 2006, he led a group that set up [[Neorhino.ca]] in an attempt to recapture the Rhinoceros Party spirit,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6282|title = A new political animal is on the scene|publisher = The McGill Daily|author = Sarah Babbage|date = September 13, 2007|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071021051540/http://mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6282|archive-date = October 21, 2007}}</ref> and ran as a Neorhino candidate in the [[2007 Outremont by-election]].

Other Rhinoceros Party members founded the [[Parti citron]] (Lemon Party), which attempted to bring a similar perspective to provincial politics in Quebec.<ref name = "DAN" />

After the party's dissolution, a number of independent election candidates informally claimed the Rhinoceros Party label even though the party itself no longer existed. There were also a number of unsuccessful attempts to revive the Rhinos as a legally incorporated political party, though this was not fully achieved until ''Neorhino.ca''.

==Neorhino.ca==
On August 7, 2007, Brian Salmi, then-president of the Rhinoceros Party, announced a $50-million lawsuit contesting an election reform law that had stripped his party of its registered status in 1993.

Legally changing his name to Sa Tan, he had planned to run under the Rhino banner in the September 2007 by-election. However, a previous law from 1993 stated that registered parties must run candidates in at least 50 ridings, at a cost of $1,000 per riding, to keep their status. In protest of the new law, the party planned to abstain from the election. Canada's then-chief electoral officer, [[Jean-Pierre Kingsley]], rejected the abstention and ordered the party removed from the registry of Canadian political parties. The lawsuit was filed as a result of the removal from the national party registry by Mr. Kingsley. Since Salmi had legally changed his name, the lawsuit was filed as ''Sa Tan vs. Her Majesty The Queen''.

The lawsuit was dropped after the ruling of the chief electoral officer was reversed in a new law passed in 2004 that said a party only had to run one candidate in a federal election or federal by-election to be considered registered.<ref name="nantucket" />

===Electoral record===
Candidates of Neorhino.ca and the Rhinoceros Party have not recorded any electoral victories. Before the Neorhino.ca candidates stood for the ridings of [[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]] and [[Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot]] in the [[2007 Canadian federal by-elections|2007 federal by-elections]], Neorhino.ca and the Rhinoceros Party before them had not fielded a candidate since Bryan Gold's failed bid to win a 1990 by-election in the [[New Brunswick]] electoral district of [[Beauséjour (electoral district)|Beauséjour]].

Neorhino.ca candidates did not win any seats in the 2007 by-elections, the [[2008 Canadian federal election|2008 federal election]], or the [[2011 Canadian federal election|2011 federal election]].

===2007/2008 by-elections===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Candidate
!Votes
!%
!Placement
!District
!Date
|-
|[[François Gourd]]
|145
|0.6
|6/12
|[[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]]
|September 17, 2007
|-
|Christian Willie Vanasse
|384
|1.2
|6/7
|[[Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot]]
|September 17, 2007
|-
|John Turner
|111
|0.4
|5/6
|[[Vancouver Quadra]]
|March 17, 2008
|}

===2008 federal election===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Election
! # of candidates
! # of votes
! % of popular vote
! % in ridings run
! # of seats
|- align=center
| '''[[2008 Canadian federal election|2008]]'''
| 7
| 2,263
| 0.02%
| 0.67%
| 0
|}

===2009 by-elections===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Candidate
!Votes
!%
!Placement
!District
!Date
|-
|Gabrielle Anctil	
|129
|0.7
|6/8
|[[Hochelaga (electoral district)|Hochelaga]]
|November 9, 2009
|}

==Rhinoceros Party==
The party changed from neorhino.ca to its new formal name the Rhinoceros Party in mid-2010. It also registered a new logo with Elections Canada.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Election
! # of candidates
! # of votes
! % of popular vote
! % in ridings run
! # of seats
|- align=center
| '''[[2011 Canadian federal election|2011]]'''
| 14
| 3,800
| 0.026%
| 0.57%
| 0
|- align=center
| '''[[2015 Canadian federal election|2015]]'''
| 27
| 7,263
| 0.04%
| 0.52%
| 0
|- align=center
| '''[[2019 Canadian federal election|2019]]'''
| 43
| 9,408
| 0.04%
| 0.45%
| 0
|- align=center
| '''[[2021 Canadian federal election|2021]]'''
| 27
| 6,085
| 0.04%
| 
| 0
|}

===2011 candidates===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Riding
!Province
!Candidate
!Occupation
!Notes
!Votes
!%
!Placement
|-
|[[Ahuntsic (federal electoral district)|Ahuntsic]]
|Quebec
|Jean-Olivier Berthiaume
|
|
| 299
| 0.64
| 6/6
|-
|[[Berthier—Maskinongé]]
|Quebec
|Martin Jubinville
|
|
| 373
| 0.66
| 6/6
|-
|[[Chicoutimi—Le Fjord]]
|Quebec
|Marielle Couture
|
|
| 340
| 0.67
| 6/6
|-
|[[Hochelaga (electoral district)|Hochelaga]]
|Quebec
|Hugo Samson Veillette
|
|
| 246
| 0.53
| 6/8
|-
|[[Honoré-Mercier]]
|Quebec
|Valery Chevrefils-Latulippe
|
|
| 181
| 0.38
| 6/7
|-
|[[LaSalle—Émard]]
|Quebec
|Guillaume Berger-Richard
|
|
| 208
| 0.50
| 7/7
|-
|[[Laurier—Sainte-Marie]]
|Quebec
|[[François Gourd|François Yo Gourd]]
|
|
| 398
| 0.79
| 6/9
|-
|[[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]]
|Quebec
|Tommy Gaudet
|
|
| 160
| 0.41
| 6/7
|-
|[[Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (federal electoral district)|Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie]]
|Quebec
|Jean-Patrick Berthiaume
|Politician<ref>[http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=12876 History of Federal Ridings since 1867: ROSEMONT—LA PETITE-PATRIE (2011/05/02)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004338/http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=12876 |date=December 3, 2013 }}, [[Parliament of Canada]], accessed November 23, 2013.</ref>
|Born in [[Saint-Jérôme, Quebec|Saint-Jérôme]], Berthiaume contested Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie in the [[2008 Canadian federal election|2008 federal election]] as a neorhino.ca candidate.<ref>Berthiaume received 319 votes (0.61%), finishing sixth.</ref> He was the leader of the Rhinoceros Party's ''Laboratoire des Sciences de la Démocratie'' (LSD) in 2011.<ref>[http://ruemasson.com/?p=8892 Éric Noël, "Jean-Patrick Berthiaume du parti Rhinocéros: de la folie à la créativité"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222000/http://ruemasson.com/?p=8892 |date=December 2, 2013 }}, ''Rue Masson'', April 22, 2011, accessed November 23, 2013.</ref>
| 417
| 0.77
| 6/7
|-
|[[Sherbrooke (federal electoral district)|Sherbrooke]]
|Quebec
|Crédible Berlingot Landry
|
|
| 233
| 0.45
| 6/6
|-
|[[Trois-Rivières]]
|Quebec
|Francis Arsenault
|
|
| 256
| 0.51
| 7/7
|-
|[[Westmount—Ville-Marie]]
|Quebec
|Victoria Haliburton
|
|
| 140
| 0.34
| 6/7
|-
|[[Peace River (federal electoral district)|Peace River]]
|Alberta
|Donovan Eckstrom
|
|
| 345
| 0.72
| 6/6
|-
|[[Cariboo—Prince George]]
|British Columbia
|Jordan Turner
|
|
| 204
| 0.47
| 7/7
|}

=== 2015 candidates ===
[[File:Sébastien Corriveau, parti Rhinocéros 2019-08-09.jpg|thumb|Sébastien CoRhino Corriveau, leader of the Rhinoceros Party since 2014, shown here in 2019.]]
On August 17, Sébastien CôRhino declared in Montréal he was willing to nationalize Tim Hortons and privatize the Royal Canadian Army at the same time: "We'll look at the results after five years, after 10 years, after 50 years and with the results of these studies we'll be able to determine if other economic sectors should also be nationalized or be privatized."
Montreal candidate Ben 97 also publicly announced that he wanted to move the capital to [[Kapuskasing]], Ontario, to "bring democracy closer to Canadians", as Kapuskasing is in the country's center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cres&canName=&canParty=72&ridProvince=0&ridName=&submit1=Search|title=History of Federal Ridings since 1867|website=lop.parl.ca|access-date=December 6, 2018|archive-date=December 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207102809/https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cres&canName=&canParty=72&ridProvince=0&ridName=&submit1=Search|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/anything-but-extinct-rhinoceros-party-back-for-2015-federal-election-1.2528464|title=Anything but extinct: Rhinoceros Party back for 2015 federal election – CTV News|website=www.ctvnews.ca|date=August 23, 2015|access-date=December 6, 2018|archive-date=July 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719085618/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/anything-but-extinct-rhinoceros-party-back-for-2015-federal-election-1.2528464|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Riding 
!Province 
!Candidate Name 
!Occupation 
!Notes
!Votes
!%
!Placement
|-
|[[Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou]]
|Quebec
|Mario Gagnon
|
|
| 258
| 0.75
| 6/6
|-
|[[Abitibi—Témiscamingue (electoral district)|Abitibi—Témiscamingue]]
|Quebec
|Pascal Le Fou Gélinas
|
|
| 425
| 0.85
| 6/6
|-
|[[Ahuntsic-Cartierville (electoral district)|Ahuntsic-Cartierville]]
|Quebec
|Catherine Gascon-David
|
|
| 285
| 0.51
| 6/6
|-
|[[Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia]]
|Quebec
|Éric Normand
|
|
| 175
| 0.48
| 7/7
|-
|[[Compton—Stanstead]]
|Quebec
|Kevin Côté 
|
|
| 315
| 0.56
| 6/6
|-
|[[Edmonton Centre]]
|Alberta
|Steven Stauffer
|
|
| 257
| 0.48
| 5/6
|-
|[[Edmonton Griesbach]]
|Alberta
|Bun Bun Thompson
|
|
| 144
| 0.30
| 7/8
|-
|[[Edmonton Strathcona (federal electoral district)|Edmonton Strathcona]]
|Alberta
|Donovan Eckstrom
|
|
| 133
| 0.24
| 7/10
|-
|[[Elgin—Middlesex—London (federal electoral district)|Elgin—Middlesex—London]]
|Ontario
|Lou Bernardi
|
|
| 185
| 0.32
| 6/6
|-
|[[Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine]]
|Quebec
|Max Boudreau
|
|
| 300
| 0.76
| 6/6
|-
|[[Hochelaga (electoral district)|Hochelaga]]
|Quebec
|Nicolas Lemay
| 
| 
| 411
| 0.79
| 6/8
|-
|[[Jonquière (federal electoral district)|Jonquière]] 
|Quebec
|Marielle Couture
| 
| 
| 382
| 0.79
| 6/6
|-
|[[Kings—Hants]]
|Nova Scotia
|Megan Brown-Hodges
| 
| 
| 184
| 0.39
| 5/7
|-
|[[La Pointe-de-l'Île]]
|Quebec
|Ben 97 Benoit
|
|
| 358
| 0.65
| 6/8
|-
|[[Lethbridge (federal electoral district)|Lethbridge]]
|Alberta
|Solly Krygier-Paine
|
|
| 209
| 0.37
| 6/6
|-
|[[Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne]]
|Quebec
|Matthew Iakov Liberman
|
|
| 325
| 0.63
| 6/7
|-
|[[Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup]]
|Quebec
|Bien Gras Gagné
|
|
| 287
| 0.58
| 6/6
|-
|[[Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan]]
|Saskatchewan
|Robert Thomas
|
|
| 208
| 0.50
| 5/5
|-
|[[Ottawa Centre (federal electoral district)|Ottawa Centre]]
|Ontario
|Conrad Lukawski
|
|
| 167
| 0.22
| 6/8
|-
|[[Papineau (electoral district)|Papineau]]
|Quebec
|Tommy Gaudet
|
| Challenged [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] leader [[Justin Trudeau]], who became [[Prime Minister of Canada]] after the election
| 323
| 0.64
| 7/10
|-
|[[Richmond—Arthabaska]]
|Quebec
|Antoine Dubois
| 
| 
| 384
| 0.66
| 6/6
|-
|[[Rimouski—Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques]]
|Quebec
|Sébastien CôRhino Côrriveau
| 
| Leader of party
| 273
| 0.61
| 6/6
|-
|[[Rivière-du-Nord (electoral district)|Rivière du Nord]]
|Quebec
|Fobozof A. Côté
| 
|
| 261
| 0.46
| 6/6
|-
|[[Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (electoral district)|Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie]]
|Quebec
|Laurent Aglat
|
|
| 495
| 0.85
| 6/8
|-
|[[Saskatoon—University]]
|Saskatchewan
|Eric Matthew Schalm
|
|
| 93
| 0.21
| 5/5
|-
|[[Sherbrooke (federal electoral district)|Sherbrooke]]
|Quebec
|Hubert Richard
|
|
| 265
| 0.46
| 7/7
|-
|[[Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs]]
|Quebec
|Daniel Wolfe
|
|
| 161
| 0.32
| 6/7
|}

=== 2019 candidates ===
List of candidates and election results:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/|title=Nos Candidats|website=Parti Rhinocéros Party|language=en-CA|access-date=October 6, 2019|archive-date=October 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008151012/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/|title=Canada Votes 2019|website=CBCNews|language=en-CA|access-date=August 19, 2020|archive-date=October 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022051419/https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Riding 
!Province 
!Candidate Name 
!Occupation 
!Notes
!Votes
!%
!Placement
|-
|[[Québec (electoral district)|Québec]]
|Québec
|Sébastien CoRhino
|Leader of the Rhinoceros Party and eternal commander of good humour<ref name="Sébastien CoRhino">{{Cite web|title=Sébastien CoRhino|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/sebastien-corhino-2/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028200213/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/sebastien-corhino-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Party dealer<ref name="The Dealer">{{Cite web|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/bio/|title=The Dealer|website=Parti Rhinocéros Party|language=en-CA|access-date=August 19, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028092037/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/bio/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|349
|0.6
|7/8
|-
|[[Beauce (electoral district)|Beauce]]
|Québec
|Maxime Bernier
|
|Ran against former cabinet minister [[Maxime Bernier]]
|1,072
|0.8
|7/7
|-
|[[Laurentides—Labelle]]
|Québec
|Ludovic Schneider
|
|
|265
|0.4
|7/8
|-
|[[Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs]]
|Québec
|Tommy Douteulogue Gaudet
|
|
|165
|0.3
|7/10
|-
|[[Hochelaga (electoral district)|Hochelaga]]
|Québec
|Chinook Blais-Leduc
|
|
|301
|0.6
|7/9
|-
|[[Thérèse-De Blainville]]
|Québec
|Alain Lamontagne
|
|
|213
|0.4
|7/8
|-
|[[LaSalle—Émard—Verdun]]
|Québec
|Rhino Jacques Bélanger
|
|
|261
|0.5
|8/9
|-
|[[Laurier—Sainte-Marie]]
|Québec
|Mélissa Archie Morals Charron
|
|
|203
|0.4
|7/10
|-
|[[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]]
|Québec
|Mark John Hiemstra
|
|
|151
|0.4
|7/7
|-
|[[West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country]]
|British Columbia
|Gordon Jeffrey
|
|
|206
|0.3
|6/7
|-
|[[Drummond (federal electoral district)|Drummond]]
|Québec
|Réal BatRhino
|
|
|205
|0.5
|7/8
|-
|[[Compton—Stanstead]]
|Québec
|Jonathan Therrien
|
|
|250
|0.4
|7/7
|-
|[[Thornhill (federal electoral district)|Thornhill]]
|Ontario
|Nathan Bregman
|
|
|217
|0.4
|5/6
|-
|[[Mégantic—L'Érable]]
|Québec
|Damien Roy
|
|
|250
|0.5
|7/8
|-
|[[Edmonton Centre]]
|Alberta
|Donovan Eckstrom
|
|
|201
|0.4
|6/8
|-
|[[Berthier—Maskinongé]]
|Québec
|Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville
|
|
|161
|0.3
|7/9
|-
|[[Calgary Signal Hill]]
|Alberta
|Christina Bassett
|
|
|505
|0.8
|6/7
|-
|[[Newmarket—Aurora (federal electoral district)|Newmarket—Aurora]]
|Ontario
|Laurie Goble
|
|
|101
|0.2
|7/7
|-
|[[Sherbrooke (federal electoral district)|Sherbrooke]]
|Québec
|Steve A Côté DeLaTrack
|
|
|221
|0.4
|7/8
|-
|[[Papineau (electoral district)|Papineau]]
|Québec
|Jean-Patrick “Cacereco” Berthiaume
|
|Challenged Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]]
|334
|0.7
|6/11
|-
|[[Montarville]]
|Québec
|Thomas Thibault-Vincent
|
|
|208
|0.4
|7/7
|-
|[[Hull—Aylmer]]
|Québec
|Sébastien Grenier
|
|
|191
|0.4
|8/8
|-
|[[Glengarry—Prescott—Russell (federal electoral district)|Glengarry—Prescott—Russell]]
|Ontario
|Marc-Antoine Gagnier
|Author and YouTuber<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marc-Antoine Gagnier|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/marc-antoine-gagnier-2/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028210607/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/marc-antoine-gagnier-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|187
|0.3
|8/8
|-
|[[Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine]]
|Québec
|Cowboy Jay
|
|
|353
|0.9
|6/7
|-
|[[Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle]]
|Québec
|Xavier Watso
|
|
|169
|0.3
|8/8
|-
|[[Chicoutimi—Le Fjord]]
|Québec
|Line “Wallace” Bélanger
|
|
|290
|0.7
|7/7
|-
|[[Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (federal electoral district)|Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie]]
|Québec
|Jos Guitare Lavoie
|
|
|342
|0.6
|6/9
|-
|[[Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques]]
|Québec
|Lysane Picker-Paquin
|
|
|176
|0.4
|7/7
|-
|[[Brome—Missisquoi (federal electoral district)|Brome—Missisquoi]]
|Québec
|Steeve Cloutier
|
|
|307
|0.5
|7/8
|-
|[[Regina—Qu'Appelle]]
|Saskatchewan
|Éric Normand
|
|Challenged [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Official Opposition leader]] [[Andrew Scheer]]
|75
|0.2
|8/8
|-
|[[Windsor West (federal electoral district)|Windsor West]]
|Ontario
|Conrad Lukawski
|
|
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|[[Terrebonne (federal electoral district)|Terrebonne]]
|Québec
|Paul Vézina
|
|
|252
|0.4
|7/8
|-
|[[Toronto Centre (federal electoral district)|Toronto Centre]]
|Ontario
|Sean Carson
|Comedian and writer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sean Carson|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/sean-carson-2/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028214944/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/sean-carson-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|143
|0.3
|6/9
|-
|[[Ottawa—Vanier (federal electoral district)|Ottawa—Vanier]]
|Ontario
|Derek Miller
|
|
|339
|0.5
|7/10
|-
|[[Kings—Hants]]
|Nova Scotia
|Nicholas Tan
|
|
|147
|0.3
|6/7
|-
|[[Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing (federal electoral district)|Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing]]
|Ontario
|Le Marquis de Marmalade
|
|
|124
|0.3
|6/6
|-
|[[Richmond Hill (federal electoral district)|Richmond Hill]]
|Ontario
|Otto Fungi Wevers
|
|
|126
|0.3
|6/6
|-
|[[Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia]]
|Québec
|Mathieu Castonguay
|Web programmer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mathieu Castonguay|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/mathieu-castonguay-2/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028215413/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/mathieu-castonguay-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|178
|0.5
|7/7
|-
|[[Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas (federal electoral district)|Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas]]
|Ontario
|Spencer Rocchi
|Teacher<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spencer Rocchi|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/spencer-john-rocchi/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028041112/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/spencer-john-rocchi/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|159
|0.2
|6/6
|-
|[[Hamilton Mountain]]
|Ontario
|Richard Plett
|Businessman<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richard Plett|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/richard-plett/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726105235/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/richard-plett/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|
|109
|0.2
|7/7
|-
|[[Regina—Qu'Appelle]]
|Saskatchewan
|Daniel Gagnon
|
|Refused<ref>{{Cite web|title=Daniel Gagnon|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/daniel-gagnon-2/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028201424/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/daniel-gagnon-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|-
|[[Regina—Qu'Appelle]]
|Saskatchewan
|Ryan Huard
|Firmware developer<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Ryan Huard|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/ryan-huard/|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.partyrhino.ca|language=en-CA|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028203844/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/ryan-huard/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Refused<ref name=":3" />
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|}

===2021 candidates===
List of candidates and election results:<ref>{{cite web |title=Nos Candidats |url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/ |access-date=October 6, 2019 |archive-date=October 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008151012/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/candidats/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Riding
!Province
!Candidate
!Occupation
!Notes
!Votes
!%
!Placement
|-
|[[Central Nova]]
|Nova Scotia
|Ryan Smyth
|
|
| 65
| 0.16
| 8/8
|-
|[[Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup]]
|Quebec
|Thibaud Mony
|
|
| 269
| 0.56
| 6/6
|-
|[[Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques]]
|Quebec
|Megan Hodges
|
|
| 192
| 0.46
| 8/8
|-
|[[Jonquière]]
|Quebec
|Line Bélanger
|
|
| 372
| 0.82
| 6/6
|-
|[[Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier]]
|Quebec
|Tommy Pelletier
|
|
| 490
| 0.75
| 7/7
|-
|[[Saint-Maurice—Champlain]]
|Quebec
|Dji-Pé Frazer 
|
|
| 285
| 0.51
| 8/9
|-
|[[Richmond—Arthabaska]]
|Quebec
|Marjolaine Delisle
|
|
| 448
| 0.78
| 7/7
|-
|[[Beloeil—Chambly]]
|Quebec
|Thomas Thibault-Vincent 
|
|Challenged [[Bloc Québécois]] leader [[Yves-François Blanchet]]
| 185
| 0.28
| 9/10
|-
|[[Papineau (electoral district)|Papineau]]
|Quebec
|Above Znoneofthe 
|
|Challenged Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]]
| 418
| 0.92
| 7/10
|-
|[[Hochelaga (electoral district)|Hochelaga]]
|Quebec
|Alan Smithee 
|
|
| 238
| 0.50
| 7/9
|-
|[[Abitibi—Témiscamingue (electoral district)|Abitibi—Témiscamingue]]
|Quebec
|Joël Lirette 
|
|
| 275
| 0.60
| 8/8
|-
|[[Gatineau]]
|Quebec
|Sébastien Grenier
|
|
| 178
| 0.34
| 8/9
|-
|[[Hull—Aylmer]]
|Quebec
|Mike LeBlanc 
|
|
| 203
| 0.40
| 8/9
|-
|[[Rivière-du-Nord (electoral district)|Rivière-du-Nord]]
|Quebec
|Jean-François René 
|
|
| 373
| 0.65
| 7/8
|-
|[[Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston (federal electoral district)|Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston]]
|Ontario
|Blake Hamilton 
|
|
| 211
| 0.34
| 6/6
|-
|[[Durham (electoral district)|Durham]]
|Ontario
|Adam Smith
|
|Challenged [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Official Opposition leader]] [[Erin O'Toole]]
| 150
| 0.22
| 6/7
|-
|[[Etobicoke—Lakeshore (federal electoral district)|Etobicoke—Lakeshore]]
|Ontario
|Sean Carson
|
|
| 119
| 0.19
| 7/7
|-
|[[Mississauga—Lakeshore (federal electoral district)|Mississauga—Lakeshore]]
|Ontario
|Kayleigh Tahk
|
|
| 94
| 0.17
| 6/6
|-
|[[Burlington (federal electoral district)|Burlington]]
|Ontario
|Jevin David Carroll 
|
|
| 122
| 0.18
| 6/6
|-
|[[Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas (federal electoral district)|Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas]]
|Ontario
|Spencer Rocchi 
|
|
| 137
| 0.22
| 6/6
|-
|[[Kitchener South—Hespeler (federal electoral district)|Kitchener South—Hespeler]]
|Ontario
|Stephen Davis 
|
|
| 93
| 0.19
| 7/8
|-
|[[Saint Boniface—Saint Vital]]
|Manitoba
|Sébastien CoRhino 
|Leader of the Rhinoceros Party and eternal commander of good humour<ref name="Sébastien CoRhino"/>
|Party dealer<ref name="The Dealer"/>
| 80
| 0.18
| 6/21
|-
|[[Grande Prairie—Mackenzie (federal electoral district)|Grande Prairie-Mackenzie]]
|Alberta
|Donovan Eckstrom 
|
|
| 314
| 0.59
| 6/6
|-
|[[Calgary Heritage]]
|Alberta
|Mark Dejewski 
|
|
| 230
| 0.43
| 7/7
|-
|[[Calgary Nose Hill]]
|Alberta
|Vanessa Wang 
|
|
| 285
| 0.57
| 6/9
|-
|[[Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge]]
|British Columbia
|Peter Buddle
|
|
| 161
| 0.30
| 6/6
|-
|[[West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country]]
|British Columbia
|Gordon Jeffrey 
|
|
| 198
| 0.15
| 6/8
|}

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2019 campaign:

* National Defence
** The Rhinoceros Party says that National Defense is their number one priority.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/our-promises/|title=The Promises|website=Parti Rhinocéros Party|language=en-CA|access-date=October 16, 2019|archive-date=October 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018175055/https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/our-promises/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The Economy
** The Rhinoceros Party says that the Economy is their number one priority.<ref name=":2" />
** The party plans to open tax havens in all provinces to keep foreign funds "local".<ref name=":2" />
** By 2022, the party pledges to complete the privatization of the [[Senate of Canada|Senate]] initiated by previous governments.<ref name=":2" />
** Fill the coffers of the state by allowing advertising in the Senate and the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]].<ref name=":2" />
** To stimulate the economy, were it to be elected,  the party would change 25 cents into thirty-cents. In this way, taxpayers would see their income increase by 16%!<ref name=":2" />
* Education
** The Rhinoceros Party says that education is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**Replace teachers on leave with photos of famous scientists.<ref name=":2" />
* Employment
** The Rhinoceros Party says that employment is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**By 2020 all citizens will have a job and some will even have two.<ref name=":2" />
** Rewrite the [[Labour code|Labour Code]] in order to add one holiday per month. April 1 and the birthday of the party leader will also become holidays. Finally, it will be forbidden to work the day after a holiday.<ref name=":2" />
** Reduce the number of accidents in factories by wrapping all workers in bubble wrap.<ref name=":2" />
* Green Plan
** The Rhinoceros Party says that the Environment is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. Car manufacturers would be forced to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green.<ref name=":2" />
** Scientists predict that in the next 20 years, global warming will threaten the existence of human beings. The party says they can make it happen in 10 years!<ref name=":2" />
** In order to fight global warming, all citizens will be forced to leave their windows open in the summer and to operate the air conditioning to the maximum.<ref name=":2" />
** Bribe the [[The Weather Network|Weather Network]] hosts to announce more sunshine on the weekend and less snow in the winter.<ref name=":2" />
**Use global warming to Canada's advantage, making the country warmer, shortening winters, and creating an agriculture industry in the territories.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9638118-holey-moley-national-party-leader-opts-for-mini-putt-over-canvassing-in-hamilton/|title=Holey moley! National party leader opts for mini putt over canvassing in Hamilton|last=Gray|first=Barry|date=October 10, 2019|work=The Hamilton Spectator|access-date=October 26, 2019|language=en-CA|issn=1189-9417|archive-date=October 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026163400/https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9638118-holey-moley-national-party-leader-opts-for-mini-putt-over-canvassing-in-hamilton/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Justice
** The Rhinoceros Party says that justice is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**In the interests of equity among all Canadian provinces, the [[War Measures Act]] will be applied to the 9 provinces that did not have the privilege in October 1970.<ref name=":2" />
* Canadian Heritage
** The Rhinoceros Party says that Canadian Heritage is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**Make "Sorry" the new official motto of Canada.<ref name=":2" />
** Nationalize bacon.<ref name=":2" />
** To create a more egalitarian Canada, all maps will be redrawn so that all provinces are rectangular like [[Saskatchewan]].
** Make [[illiteracy]] the third official language of Canada.<ref name=":2" />
* International relationships
** The Rhinoceros Party says that International relationships are their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**Following the Trudeau government's inaction, the [[North Magnetic Pole|magnetic pole]] moved from Canada to Russia. The Rhinoceros Party has promised to bring it back.<ref name=":2" />
** Finished, ambassador appointments in a partisan and arbitrary way! The ambassador positions will now be sold to the highest bidders.<ref name=":2" />
** Annexation of [[Massachusetts]] to have champion sports teams again.<ref name=":2" />
* Health
** The Rhinoceros Party says that health is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**Reduce traffic in emergency rooms across Canada by eliminating waiting rooms.<ref name=":2" />
** To counter the shortage of doctors and nurses, all employees will be provided with steroids to increase their performance.<ref name=":2" />
* Public security
** The Rhinoceros Party says that public security is their number one priority<ref name=":2" />
**To help victims of identity theft, a new name and birth date will be provided to citizens who request it.<ref name=":2" />
** To increase the safety of Canadian children, the name of newborns must be at least 12 letters, including a capital letter, a number and a special character.<ref name=":2" />

If elected, the Rhinoceros Party of Canada has promised to:
* Take Canada off the gold standard, opting instead to use a snow standard to boost the economy<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.macleans.ca/society/14-weird-platform-promises-from-the-now-defunct-rhinoceros-party/|title=14 weird platform promises from the now-defunct Rhinoceros Party|date=August 30, 2014|work=Macleans.ca|access-date=November 7, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=November 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102081442/http://www.macleans.ca/society/14-weird-platform-promises-from-the-now-defunct-rhinoceros-party/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Repeal the law of [[gravity]]<ref name=":0" />
* Promote [[higher education]] by building taller schools<ref name=":0" />
* Pave the [[Bay of Fundy]] to make more parking for the Maritimes<ref name=":0" />
* Count the [[Thousand Islands]] to make sure the [[Americans]] didn’t steal any<ref name=":0" />
* Change Montreal’s rue Ste-Catherine into the world’s longest bowling alley<ref name=":0" />
* Ban crappy Canadian winters<ref name=":0" />
* Abolish all laws to end crime<ref name=":0" />
* Tear down the [[Rocky Mountains|Rockies]] so Albertans can see the Pacific sunset<ref name=":0" />
* Abolish lawn mowing in [[Outremont, Quebec|Outremont, QC]]<ref name=":0" />
* Ban guns and butter—both kill<ref name=":0" />
* Reform the retail lottery scheme by replacing cash prizes with [[Senate of Canada|Senate]] appointments<ref name=":0" />
* Forget having two official languages; replace with having two official ears<ref name=":0" /> (In French, the same word is used for "language" and for "tongue")
* Seat the [[Queen of Canada]] in [[Buckingham, Quebec]]<ref name=":0" />
* Privatize the Queen<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eatgoogle.com/en/promises/|title=Promises|last=utiliser|first=Ne pas|website=www.eatgoogle.com|language=en-CA|access-date=November 7, 2017|archive-date=November 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105221130/http://www.eatgoogle.com/en/promises/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Tax the black market<ref name=":1" />
* Nationalize [[Tim Hortons]]<ref name=timmies>[https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/08/18/rhino-party-promises-to-nationalize-tim-hortons-move-capital-to-kapuskasing.html "Rhino Party promises to nationalize Tim Hortons, move capital to Kapuskasing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909095827/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/08/18/rhino-party-promises-to-nationalize-tim-hortons-move-capital-to-kapuskasing.html |date=September 9, 2017 }}. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', August 18, 2015.</ref>
* Move the national capital to [[Kapuskasing]], [[Ontario]] to be closer to the centre of the country<ref name=timmies/>
*In order to increase car pooling and reduce road speeds, car manufacturers will need to move the brake pedal to the passenger side.<ref name=":2" />
* Rename black ice to neon yellow ice.<ref name=":2" />
* During a storm all speed limits will be eliminated to make sure Canadians spend as little time on the roads as possible in order to reduce the likelihood of a collision.<ref name=":2" />
* Use rubber instead of concrete when building roads in major cities to reduce the number of injuries to cyclists.<ref name=":2" />
* Encouraged by the success of law that now allows motorists to turn right on a red light, the party will now allow them to turn left or go straight.<ref name=":2" />
* Mandate archeologists to discover if remains of roads actually exist under [[Montreal]] potholes.<ref name=":2" />
* Promote [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]] fitness by having them cross the floor daily.
* Transport oil and gas in blimps instead of pipelines.

== Archives ==
There is Rhinoceros Party [[fonds]] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rhinoceros Party fonds, Library and Archives Canada|date=July 20, 2017|url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=107066&lang=|access-date=September 18, 2020|archive-date=September 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926200218/https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/accueil/notice?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=107066|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[:Category:Rhinoceros Party politicians]]
* [[List of frivolous political parties]]
* [[Independent Rhinoceros candidates in the 1997 Canadian federal election]]
* [[Non-human electoral candidates]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.partyrhino.ca/ Official website]
*[https://wayback.archive-it.org/227/*/http://www.eatgoogle.com/ Rhinoceros Party – Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups] – Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries

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