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Blake Hamilton

Wit, whimsy, and hopefully a little wisdom too...

Affordability & Childcare

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Canada Child Benefit

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Rewarding breeders is alright, I suppose...kids are super expensive, after all...

Canada Workers Benefit

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Sure, why not?

Cell & Internet Bills

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Also way too high

Childcare

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Working parents could always use an extra hand

Employment Insurance

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Necessary in case of cruel corporate downsizing

Food & Nutrition

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Too damned high

GST

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Good Sometimes Tax

Guaranteed Livable Income

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Maybe, with checks and safeguards too

Living in the North

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Horribly cold and expensive, but with its own charms

Minimum Wage

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MOAR

People with Disabilities

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Be nice to them

Climate Change & the Environment

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Carbon Capture & Storage

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With the environment being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, we pledge to protect all parts of our beautiful federation that are not yet the property of a foreign multinational, and to fight the scourge of climate change accordingly:
  1. To promote carpooling, we will make sure that the brake pedal is now installed on the passenger side of all vehicles.

  2. Green cars are not available in sufficient numbers in Canada. This is why a Rhinoceros Government will force car manufacturers to build more green cars: forest green, pale green, khaki green and neon green.

  3. Scientists predict that in the next 20 years, global climate change will threaten the very existence of humanity itself. We can do better! A Rhinoceros Government promises to make it happen in 10 years!

  4. We will bribe all Weather Network presenters to announce only sun on Sundays, and less snow in the winter.

  5. Use global warming to Canada's advantage, making the country more temperate, shortening winters, and thus create a new thriving agriculture industry in our northern territories.

  6. Transport oil and gas in blimps instead of pipelines.

Carbon Pricing

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Good idea, but make it practical and least burdensome

Effects of Climate Change

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Undeniable

Emissions Reductions Targets

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Have some, but they should be proportionate and realistic, without undue burdens to taxpayers

Energy Efficient Buildings

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A good thing

Energy Grid

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Modernize the hell out of it!

Energy Sources

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Oh, the humanity!!
Earth, Wind & Fire. And don't forget our Nuclear buddy, eh!

Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Not really a good thing. Better to promote economic diversification.

Green Innovation

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Hell yes!

Industrial Carbon Emissions

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Should be lower

Low-Carbon Manufacturing

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A good idea

Natural Gas & LNG

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Fine, as long as done safely

Project Impact Assessments

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Need them, but be smart about them

Shipping & Marine Protection

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Save the whales, nuke the whalers

Waste

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Oh, there's plenty of that around...

Wildfires

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Get to the root of the problem and get rid of all trees entirely

Education

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Apprenticeship

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You're fired, Donald!

Job Training

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With education being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, we are committed to working with the provinces and territories in order to eliminate waste and provide quality education to all Canadians:
  1. Replace teachers on leave with photos of famous scientists.

  2. Provide higher education by building taller schools.

  3. Mandate the acceptance of Monopoly money as legal tender for the repayment of all student loans.

Post-Secondary Tuition

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Choose your major carefully

Health & Healthcare

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Access to Abortion

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Yup.

COVID Testing

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Yes

COVID Vaccination

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Yes

Future Pandemics

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With health being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, we promise that all Canadians will get their money’s worth when it comes time to enjoy our free healthcare:
  1. We will reduce congestion in hospital emergency rooms by eliminating waiting areas entirely.

  2. To counter the chronic shortage of doctors and nurses across the country, we will provide steroids to all current ones in order to increase their performance.

  3. We will allocate funds for the development of a vaccine to protect future generations from traveller’s diarrhea.

  4. Promote fitness among Senators and Members of Parliament by having them cross the floor daily.

Health Funding

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Not just how much, but where and how too, to avoid unnecessary administrative wastage

Medical Assistance in Dying

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Yes, when there's no other compassionate choice left

Palliative Care

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Absolutely -- because the dying should never suffer

Pharmacare

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Maybe, but share costs with the provinces

Review of COVID Response

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Pobody's perfect... Always room for improvement

Housing & Homelessness

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Homelessness

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Do they still sell fridges in big boxes? Yeah, but the rents on those are outrageous!

Housing Prices

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Seller's paradise, buyer's inferno

Housing Supply

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Build more, but also fill empty ones too

Money Laundering

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Use lots of fabric softener

Mortgages

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Make them not too easy, but not too hard

Human Rights & Equality

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Conversion Therapy

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BAN IT. PERIOD.

Data Privacy

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With public safety being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, our government is committed to making the necessary efforts to ensure total security for all Canadians from coast to coast to coast:
  1. To help victims of identity theft, we are committed to providing a new name and a new date of birth to citizens who request it.

  2. To ensure the safety of our children, we will require that the first names of all newborns be at least twelve (12) characters long, including a capital letter, a number, and a special symbol [ ! @ # ? etc.]

Gender Equity

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Also yup.

Hate Crimes & Hate Speech

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Only cowards and charlatans hide behind free speech rights.

The Blood Ban

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Dumb, outdated, and discriminatory -- scrap it. Better & more testing instead.

Immigration & Refugees

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Administrative Backlogs

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Hire more people to get through them faster...d'uh!

Credential Recognition

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Absolutely yes! Just pass an official language fluency test first and you're good!

Family Reunification

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Sure, within reason and with responsibilities

Immigration Process

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Make it easier, but not too easy.

Refugees

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Sure, within reason and with responsibilities

Temporary Foreign Workers

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Sure, but don't be a lazy exploitative cheapskate either...looks for Canadians first if you can

Visas

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Sure. Mastercards and American Express too.

Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation

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Drinking Water

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Need and give it, but also give training and means to self-sustain afterwards

Indigenous Broadband

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Absolutely. It's the 21st century, after all!

Indigenous Businesses

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Sure -- create more opportunities

Mental Health

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Definitely more / do better

Natural Resources Development

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Absolutely, with checks and balances

Residential Schools

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An atrocity that should never be forgotten or ignored

Self-Determination

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Meh.

Infrastructure

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Infrastructure Blockades

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Not that helpful

Infrastructure Funding

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Sure, why not?

Internet Infrastructure

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Definitely needs to improve...it's not where it needs to be, and where it should be -- especially in rural areas. Get Bell, Rogers, and Telus to smarten up and not be so stingy!

Municipal Proposals

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Hear them out

Northern Infrastructure

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Definitely needs to improve...it's not where it needs to be, and where it should be

Small Craft Harbours

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Sure

Trans-Canada Trail

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Yes

International Relations

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China

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Stop persecuting the Uighurs and being dicks in general...so we can buy your crap with a clearer conscience...

Human Rights

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Champion them abroad while respecting them at home too

India

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Play nice with Pakistan, please

International Development

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Of course we should help, as well as helping ourselves too

Iran

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Be nice to them, but don't take any guff from them either...

Israel & Palestine

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Sharing is caring

La Francaphonie

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Tout à fait, mes ami(e)s !

Religious Freedom

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Sure, but not an absolute...free to believe and worship, but NOT free to discriminate and hate in the process

Ukraine

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Back off, Russia...you don't need to rebuild your empire...you're big enough already!

United Nations

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Not perfect, but still necessary and useful

Jobs & the Economy

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Agriculture

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Farmers feed cities. Don't forget that.

Airlines

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We'd need 'em, being so gigantic. So make them affordable for all.

Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy

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A necessary burden

Charities and Non-Profits

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Help, don't hinder

Competition

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A healthy thing...monopolies suck! Especially that dumb thimble!

Construction Work

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Need it. Just maybe not during rush hour, please?

Credit Card Fees

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Meh.

Employee Ownership

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Yes -- make workers stakeholders too.

Entrepreneurship

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Sure.

Hospitality and Tourism

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Always good

Innovation

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Usually good

International Trade

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Need it.

Internships

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More paid ones

Interprovincial Trade

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Of course! Make it easier

Investment

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Always good to encourage

Manufacturing

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Bring more of it back to Canada

News Media & Journalism

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More facts, less spin either way

Northern Economy

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Boost and promote

Parental Leave

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Yup. A year for both is good.

Part-Time, Contract, & Gig Workers

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Here to stay, so deserving of the same rights and protections

Pensions

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Make them decent and secure against corporate greed and mismanagement

Regulation

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Necessary, but don't go overboard with it either...

Scientific Research & Exp. Dev

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Science and lab coats are sexy!

Sick Leave

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Should be a provincial thing, but definitely do it if some provinces won't

Small Businesses

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Support them, but not at the expense of workers' right and dignity

Steel & Aluminum

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Make and export more

Supply Management

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Meh.

Tax Evasion

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With Canada’s economy being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, we propose several measures to stimulate the economy as well as reduce the burden on Canadian taxpayers:
  1. Open new tax havens in all provinces and territories across Canada, thereby keeping foreign funds local and thus contributing billions of extra dollars to our eventual post-pandemic economic recovery.

  2. By 2022, complete the full privatization of the Senate initiated by previous governments.

  3. Bring in additional revenue by allowing corporate advertising in the both the Senate and the House of Commons.

  4. Change Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it can be inflated or deflated at will.

  5. Change the value of the quarter to thirty cents, thereby increasing the income of taxpayers by 16%!

  6. Take Canada off the gold standard, opting instead to use a snow standard.

Taxation

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A necessary burden

Tech Giants

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Good to a point

Unions & Worker Control

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Fine in principle...just don't politicize or shelter the incompetent

Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction

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Addiction & the Opioid Crisis

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A serious problem we need to do more about

Mental Health Coverage

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Should be included and covered

Mental Health Services

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Definitely more

Miscarriages & Stillbirth

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Tragic and sad

Natural Resources & Extraction

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Aquaculture

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Sure

Fisheries

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Sure, within reason. No overfishing.

Forestry

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Still very necessary

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

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Sure

Mining

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Also still necessary.

Off-Shore Oil

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We'll still need for a while yet...plus profit-share with the relevant provinces and territories, because that's fair

Pipelines

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Transport oil and gas in blimps instead of pipelines.

Public Safety & Policing

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Domestic Violence

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Bad, but not really up to the federal government to deal with...work with the provinces and municipalities

Gang Violence

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Bad, but not really up to the federal government to deal with...work with the provinces and municipalities

Gun Violence

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A problem to deal with, but not at the expense of law-abiding gun owners. Since most gun crime is done with illegal weapons anyway...

Human Trafficking

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Do more to prevent

Security Infrastructure

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Yup.

Seniors & Senior Care

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Aging in Place

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Yes?

Long-Term Care

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Work with the provinces to do better...give our elders the dignity and comfortable lives they deserve

Senior Women

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Grandmas rock! Give them all the love, respect, and support!

Transit & Transportation

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Transit Investment

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To a point. Municipalities and provinces can invest too; the feds aren't a charity

Zero-Emission Vehicles

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MOAR

Misc. topics

Accessibility

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More is better

Adoption

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Make it easier and simpler. For all.

Broadcasting & Streaming

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Sure

CBC & Radio-Canada

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Yes

Canada Post

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Still necessary, but room for improvement and greater efficiency

Canadian Heritage

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With Canadian heritage being THE number one priority of the Rhinoceros Party, we are committed to defending Canadian values ​​and promoting our history:
  1. Make “Sorry” the new official motto of Canada.

  2. Nationalize bacon.

  3. To create a more egalitarian Canada, maps will be redrawn so that all provinces and territories are rectangular like Saskatchewan.

  4. Make illiteracy the third official language of Canada.

  5. In order to be closer to the centre of the country, move the national capital from Ottawa to Kapuskasing, Ontario*.

*Or, alternatively, to Baker Lake, Nunavut -- just 40 kilometres from the exact geographic centre of Canada.

Financial Advice & Institutions

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Service fees suck!
Always good to get

Government Ethics & Lobbying

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Do better. Use common sense. Don't let lobbyists have any undue leverage -- should be more balanced.

Government Services

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Need them

Government Transparency

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Most definitely more and better needed! Citizens have a right to know.

Northern Devolution

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Why not? Good enough for the provinces most of the time... The territories deserve equal treatment too.

Public Service

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Need it

Right-to-Repair

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Sure

Biography

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A proud resident of Carleton Place for over 20 years, Blake is a wryly disillusioned patriot who’s fed up with all the other parties and their corrupt ineptitude. When it's all become such an absurd joke, why not vote for the actual joker instead?

Our current system is horribly broken. Utterly dysfunctional and hobbled by hyper-partisanship and inherent structural flaws in our electoral process. The big parties serve themselves now more than they serve us. Playing us like puppets while they consolidate more and more unchecked power. They are out of touch and no longer truly represent us.

I'm also tired of strategic voting as an alternative: having to hold my nose and vote for a party I don't like, in order to stop another party I like even less from getting elected. That's not why and how we should vote. Defeats the very purpose of democracy and the true will of the people.

Enough is enough. No more.

I’d rather run satirically to decry this absurd joke than to enable it any more.

I want another option. So do others. Instead of spoiling their ballots or just not voting at all.

At least we Rhinos are honest enough to call out this craziness, and to never make any false promises for the sake of getting elected. Quite the opposite: our only real, solemn promise is to never keep any of the promises we make if elected. That's pure honesty right there, without agenda or ulterior motive. We're the champions of truth, wrapped in a cloak of gleeful hilarity.

So send all the clowns in the House a message -- better to vote for us real clowns than it is to vote for them. Because humour is always better than anger or apathy.

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Reason for running

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To give my fellow disillusioned citizens & voters a chance to meaningfully express their dissatisfaction with our broken system at the ballot box: by voting for someone/something else instead, rather than spoiling their ballot, or not voting at all.

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