The Fair Choice Party --Only in canada

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"Vancouver, Canada. - June 22, 2002 - A new national political party is emerging in Canada committed to giving more power to votes cast by the poor. The Fair Choice Party, or FCP, founded by Steve Glickman was designed to decrease the disparity of political influence between the wealthy elite and the vulnerable poorer majority by giving the poor a weighted vote.
"The FCP is out to change the world; without dismantling our government or economic structures. Our goal is to permit the necessary reforms and gradually shift politics from within so that everybody gets a more equal say in who should lead." It is a "gentle revolution" designed to help the poor gain equality and opportunity through a new and innovative political process.
Glickman adds, "When we say 'power to the people' we mean it. We're not trying to be the spokespeople on their behalf, but rather give them a very real method to have their voices heard." This new political alternative remains adaptive and has no rigid agendas or fixed political platforms - however, at the forefront of the movement are the goals of establishing environmental integrity, a sustainable economy, and a newfound respect for the democratic system.
"The challenge is that the poor are the least vocal, least organized, least observed, and least interested in politics. They feel that the government doesn't want to hear what they have to say, so they have no interest in participating in the voting process. Instead, what we are witnessing nowadays is an expression of frustration through violent and destructive means." The FCP attempts to reverse this trend by empowering the poor politically and helping them make a difference constructively and non-violently. This vote scaling idea proposed seems to be the only viable way to permit the principles of democracy, capitalism, activism, and globalization to live side-by-side in harmony."
 
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Natural Law Party (Flying Yogis)

These guys were my personal favorite.

The Rhino Party

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Rhinoceros Party of Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Rhinoceros Party of Canada, also known as the Rhinos, was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Operating within the Canadian tradition of political satire, the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo was to "promise nothing", although in fact they often promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.

The Rhinos were started in 1963 by Doctor Jacques Ferron, "Éminence de la Grande Corne du parti Rhinoceros", a famous separatist writer. 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 (1980) ran against Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in his Montreal seat.

The party, which claimed to be the spiritual descendants of a Brazilian rhinoceros who had once been elected mayor of São Paulo, listed Cornelius the First, a rhinoceros from the Granby zoo east of Montreal, as its leader. The party claimed that the rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are "thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces".


Rhinoceros Party platform
Platform promises released by the Rhinoceros Party included:

- Repealing the law of gravity,
- paving the province of Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot,
- Instituting illiteracy as Canada's third official language,
- Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset,
- Building sloping bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could "coast from coast to coast",
- Responding to the energy crisis, reducing energy costs for transportation by moving the cities of Montréal 50km west and Toronto 50km east,
- Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory (after the Yukon and North-West Territories) in Canada's backyard, in order to raise the average national temperature,
- Replacing the Canadian Armed Forces with clones of Vladislav Tretiak,
- Making bubble gum the national currency, so that it could be inflated or deflated at will,
- Breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that "the little buggers will freeze to death",
- Turning Montreal's Rue Sainte-Catherine into the world's longest bowling alley,
- Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in starting with bicycles, then small cars, eventually including large trucks and buses as the last step,
- Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California,
- Painting Canada's coastal sea limits so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times,
- Counting the Thousand Islands to make sure none were missing,
- Running a Ted "not so" Sharp in Flora MacDonald's Ontario riding on a "Fauna, not flora" slogan, promising to give fauna equal representation. Ted's platform on the then-controversial abortion issue was a clear "If elected, I promise to never have an abortion.",
- Exploiting acid rain as an electrical energy source by placing dissimilar-metal electrodes in Canadian swimming pools in order to use them as batteries,
- Banning lousy Canadian winters.

Despite the obvious appeal of banning winter, the Rhinoceros Party never succeeded in electing Members of Parliament, but in 1984, the party was Canada's fourth-largest political party in number of total votes received. They would sometimes come in second place in certain ridings, humiliating traditional Canadian parties in the process. In one election, for instance, the Rhinoceros party candidate, a professional lady clown called Chatouille (which means tickle, in French), got more votes than André Payette, a popular broadcaster who was then running for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

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Said1 said:
They also wanted to put steroids in Canada's water resevoirs so Canada would be a stronger country. :D


:rotflmao:!

Fantastic. I would love to see a "party" like this one in the US. I bet they would get more votes than the Green Party!
 
- Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in starting with bicycles, then small cars, eventually including large trucks and buses as the last step,

Gradually fazed in, LOL. :D

- Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California,

I bid one US dollar.
 

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