The entartistes were a Canadian satirical political group, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s, whose members threw cream pies at political and cultural figures whom the group deemed to be in need of public embarrassment. A member of the group, who identified himself only as Pope-Tart, told the Montreal Gazette in 1999 that the group's core philosophy was "You work for us. You can't be too big for your britches or you'll get a pie in the face."
38-660: The group was founded by several former members of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada , including François Gourd . They initially convened in 1995 to offer a $ 400 reward to anybody from across Canada who successfully pied Prime Minister Jean Chrétien , but after nobody accepted the offer at the time they began to plan their own pieings. Other figures pied by the group included Jean Charest , Mario Dumont , Stéphane Dion , Allan Rock , Pierre Pettigrew , William Johnson , Pierre Bourque , Jean Doré , Jacques Parizeau , Bernard Landry and Jacques Duchesneau . Quebec politicians were
76-432: 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,
114-541: A member of an offshoot group in Prince Edward Island which called itself the PEI Pie Brigade. Ralph Klein was pied in 2003 by Alberta resident Christopher Geoghegan. While some figures pied by the group accepted the embarrassment in good humour, several others filed charges of assault against the pie-throwers. Bruno Caron, who had pied Parizeau, faced criminal charges in 1999. He pleaded guilty in 2000, and
152-556: 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 . The party used as its logo 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 (from sea to sea), playing on
190-562: 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 so as "not to split the silly vote". Although not recognized in the United States, former baseball pitcher Bill Lee ran for President of the United States in 1988 on the Rhinoceros Party ticket. In the 2019 Canadian federal election ,
228-403: 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. In 2006, he led a group that set up Neorhino.ca in an attempt to recapture the Rhinoceros Party spirit, and ran as a Neorhino candidate in the 2007 Outremont by-election . Other Rhinoceros Party members founded
266-521: A second election: "We Rhinos think that elections are so much fun, we want to hold them all the time". 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. 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
304-493: The 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. On September 23, 1993, Canada's 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
342-526: The 2011 federal election . 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. 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
380-859: The Godzilla suit he wore while campaigning, tried to revive the Rhinoceros Party to contest the 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 ) 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". The party disbanded shortly thereafter. François Gourd ,
418-629: The Parti Rhinocéros , which he described as "an intellectual guerrilla party". He also began to write for the magazine Parti pris . He also ran for the RIN in the district of Taillon in the 1966 provincial election and outperformed other candidates of the same party, finishing third with a score of 18.3%. In 1969, he became a member of the Parti Québécois . In 1977, the Quebec government awarded him
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#1732856129611456-520: The Parti Rhinocéros Party , is a Canadian federal 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. It was known as neorhino.ca until 2010 when the party changed its name and logo. The party was founded by François "Yo" Gourd , who was involved with the original incarnation of
494-508: The Parti citron (Lemon Party), which attempted to bring a similar perspective to provincial politics in Quebec. 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
532-449: 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 claimed to be the spiritual descendants of Cacareco , a Brazilian rhinoceros who was "elected" member of São Paulo 's city council in 1958, and listed Cornelius
570-597: 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
608-569: The First , a rhinoceros from the Granby Zoo , east of Montreal, as its leader. 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". Some members of the Rhino party would call themselves Marxist-Lennonist,
646-543: The Islands riding with the campaign slogan " Fauna , not flora ", promising to give fauna equal representation. 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
684-530: The Neorhino.ca candidates stood for the ridings of Outremont and Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in the 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 . Neorhino.ca candidates did not win any seats in the 2007 by-elections, the 2008 federal election , or
722-510: 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. Note: (1) The Rhinoceros Party ran 12 candidates in the 1972 election, but was not recognized as a registered party by Elections Canada; therefore, its candidates were listed as independents. (Source: Toronto Star , October 31, 1972.) The party abstained from
760-475: The Rhinoceros Party of Canada has promised to: There is Rhinoceros Party fonds at Library and Archives Canada . Jacques Ferron Jacques Ferron (January 20, 1921 – April 22, 1985) was a Canadian physician and author. Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville , Quebec, the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On March 5, 1931, his mother died. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf but
798-481: The Rhinoceros Party ran a candidate named Maxime Bernier in the riding of Beauce against the incumbent, Maxime Bernier , leader of the People's Party of Canada . Neither candidate won, with both being defeated by Conservative Party candidate Richard Lehoux . 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
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#1732856129611836-529: 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 character. The party is led by Sébastien Côrriveau (who used the names "Sébastien CôRhino Côrriveau" and "Sébastien CoRhino" when running in the 2015 and 2019 federal elections, respectively ). It promises, like its predecessor, not to keep any of its promises if elected. The Rhinoceros Party ( French : Parti Rhinocéros )
874-556: The acceptance in June 1945. He trained in British Columbia and Ontario and after that was sent to Quebec and New Brunswick as a medic. When relieved of duty in 1946, he settled in Rivière-Madeleine, Quebec . His time in Gaspésie was the inspiration for many of his stories written later. He may have had to leave Rivière-Madeleine because he was denounced from the pulpit as a communist by
912-572: The foundation of the magazine Situations . In 1960, with the help of Raoul Roy, he created l'Action socialiste pour l'indépendance du Québec. In 1962, he received the Governor General's Award for French fiction for his book Contes du pays incertain . Ferron was a candidate for the CCF in the 1958 federal election in the Longueuil district. He finished third with 6.8% of the vote. In 1963 he founded
950-401: 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. Candidates of Neorhino.ca and the Rhinoceros Party have not recorded any electoral victories. Before
988-458: The local parish priest. In 1947, his father died. In 1948, he returned to Montréal. In 1949, he moved to Longueuil , Quebec and his first book, L'ogre , was published. He lived among working-class people that lived in Longueuil-annexe in those years, often offering his services for free-refusing to be paid, or omitting to ask. Not in the name of charity, but rather of solidarity- his giving
1026-401: The most common targets, although the group also pied Sylvester Stallone during a 1998 promotional tour. The group also inspired other attempts at pieing by offshoot groups across Canada. After the group released an updated "hit list" of desired targets in 1999 which included Chrétien, media mogul Conrad Black and pop singer Céline Dion , Chrétien was successfully pied in 2000 by Evan Brown,
1064-626: The process. In the 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 riding in Montréal. Côté came in second place, after the successful Liberal candidate, but ahead of both other major parties: the third place New Democrat , and the fourth-place Progressive Conservative candidate. Chatouille received almost twice as many votes as
1102-465: The result. Lehoux received 22,860 votes. The Rhinoceros Party never succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Commons . In the 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 ridings , humiliating traditional Canadian parties in
1140-447: 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. List of candidates and election results: List of candidates and election results: 2019 campaign: If elected,
1178-565: The word mare , which means pond in French ) at the top. 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 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 's Kingston and
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1216-603: The world's cold. If another Cold War starts, we'll be unbeatable". In the 1988 election , the Rhinoceros Party ran a candidate named John Turner in the same riding as Liberal leader John Turner , and received 760 votes. Penny Hoar, a safe sex activist, distributed condoms in Toronto while running under the slogan: "Politicians screw you—protect yourself". Other platform promises of the Rhinoceros Party included: The Rhino Party also declared that, should they somehow actually win an election, they would immediately dissolve and force
1254-504: 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". They then promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public. The Rhinos were started in 1963 by Jacques Ferron , "Éminence de la Grande Corne du parti Rhinocéros". In
1292-400: Was expelled in 1936. He continued his education at Collège Saint-Laurent and then was readmitted at Jean-de-Brébeuf, only to be expelled again. In September 1941, he was accepted at Université Laval where he studied medicine and on July 22, 1943, he married a fellow student, Madeleine Therrien, whom he divorced in 1949. November 1943, he enrolled in the Canadian army as a medic and received
1330-412: Was found guilty of assault and sentenced to 30 days of jail time, and ordered to contribute $ 50 toward a victims' compensation fund. The shame from the experience led Brown to quit his acting career and move to Halifax, Nova Scotia to become a theater technician, later writing a one-man show about the experience. Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963%E2%80%9393) The Rhinoceros Party , officially
1368-528: Was not fully achieved until 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
1406-482: Was politically motivated, and he understood that his training as a doctor-his privilege- was paid for by the misery that the francophone working class was experiencing at that time. In 1951, he began a 30-year collaboration with L'Information médicale et paramédicale . On June 28, 1952, he married Madeleine Lavallée. In 1954 he became a member of the board of the Canadian Peace Congress . In 1959 he helped in
1444-600: Was sentenced to 60 hours of community service . Stéphane Dion also pressed charges against the group after his pieing, resulting in convictions of assault against group members Patrick Robert and Benoit Foisy. Both were sentenced to 60 hours of community service. The Globe and Mail subsequently identified Robert as the formerly anonymous group spokesman "Pope-Tart". Geoghegan was found guilty of assault against Klein in 2004, and sentenced to 60 days of jail time to be served on weekends, 40 hours of community service and three months' probation. Evan Brown, who pied Jean Chrétien,
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