The Absolutely Absurd Party is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 joke political party

Joke political party

A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may not have a serious point behind its activities...

, which carries on the tradition of political satire

Satire

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. It was founded in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

 by John Jagiellowicz in 2003. Dave Nesarajah was its auditor.
The party is satirical of government, and is semi-anarchistic

Anarchism

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...

; they claim to promote a form of direct democracy

Direct democracy

Direct democracy is a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives. Direct democracy is classically termed "pure democracy"...

. Proposed laws appear to support activities such as drinking alcohol, recreational drug use, and recreational sex.

The party advocates many policies that are seen by many as jokes, including: reducing the legal voting age

Voting age

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 to 14 ("When was the last time a 14 year-old started a war?"); in federal elections, the individual in dead last becomes the elected official, rather than the one with the most votes; "streamline the Department of Defence by replacing the Department with a crack, elite squad of Rock/Paper/Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

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 commandos." Another proposal was to raffle off senate

Canadian Senate

The Senate of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the House of Commons, and the monarch . The Senate consists of 105 members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister...

 seats, which could have served as a fund-raising mechanism.

The chief electoral officer ruled that the party could be officially registered "if it has candidates whose nomination has been confirmed in 50 electoral districts at the next general election", but they did not stand in the 2004 general election, having withdrawn their application to stand.

External links

(defunct since 2004, available on the Internet Archive

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, example from December 2003)