Political parties that broke the mold

[Star Cluster]

I found this article amusing, so I thought I would share.  Sometimes, it's best not to take ourselves too serious and take a break with a little levity.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Just to expand on the awesomeness that is The Rhinoceros Party, here's a list of some of their platforms (from Wikipedia):

   
    * Repealing the law of gravity[18][19]
    * Providing higher education by building taller schools[10]
    * Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages[10]
    * Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset[19]
    * Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River[20]
    * Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space[10]
    * 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[21]
    * Ending crime by abolishing all laws[22]
    * To provide more parking in the Maritimes and to create the world's largest parking lot respectively, paving the Bay of Fundy and the province of Manitoba [10][19]
    * Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley[10]
    * Amending Canada's Freedom of Information Act. "Nothing is free anymore; Canadians should have to pay for their information." [23]
    * Making the Canadian climate more temperate by tapping into the natural resource of hot air in Ottawa.[23]
    * Storing nuclear waste in the Senate. "After all, we've been storing political waste there for years." [23]
    * 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.[12]
    * Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California[19][21]
    * Putting the national debt on Visa[24]
    * Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons[25]
    * 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 Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)[25]
    * Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times[20]
    * Banning guns and butter, since both kill[20]
    * Banning lousy Canadian winters[10]
    * Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.[26]
    * Making the Trans-Canada Highway one way only.[26]
    * Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.[27]
    * Donate a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada[21]
    * Counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans have stolen any[8]

[Yla]

Jón Gnarr Kristinsson, from the Best Party, current mayor of Reykjavik.

[Osama bin Bambi]

The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party. It'll please everybody!

[Eniliad]

    * 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 Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)[25]

The rest of this list was funny... but this one made me laugh, HARD. That's fucking awesome! They did that?? Wow!