Editing Cornelius the First (section)

==Political candidature==
Cornelius was the nominal leader of the [[List of federal political parties in Canada|federal political party]], the [[Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–1993)|Rhinoceros Party of Canada]] from 1965 to 1993. The party attracted a considerable number of votes in Canadian elections [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979]], [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980]] and [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]], sometimes even coming in second place in some [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]]s, but never elected a candidate to the [[House of Commons of Canada]].

The Party was inspired by [[Cacareco]], a rhinoceros at the [[São Paulo]] zoo in Brazil, which was a candidate for the 1958 city council elections with the intention of protesting against political corruption.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.memoriaviva.com.br/ocruzeiro/24101959/241059_8.htm |title=Cacareco |access-date=2014-10-06 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165442/http://www.memoriaviva.com.br/ocruzeiro/24101959/241059_8.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Electoral officials did not accept Cacareco's candidacy, but he eventually won 100,000 votes, more than any other party in that election (which was also marked by rampant [[absenteeism]]). Today, the term "Voto Cacareco" (Cacareco vote) is commonly used to describe protest votes in Brazil.

During the [[1984 Canadian federal election|Canadian federal election of 1984]], the party made a major part of their platform declaring war on [[Belgium]] because a Belgian cartoon character, ''[[The Adventures of Tintin|Tintin]]'', killed a rhinoceros in one of the early works of the comics series.<ref name="FORCES">{{Cite web |url=http://www.forces.org/canada/news-archive/092003.htm |title=Dateline-Montreal Grand Prix update |publisher=[[Forces Canada]] |date=September 5, 2003 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625142517/http://www.forces.org/canada/news-archive/092003.htm |archivedate=June 25, 2007}}</ref> The party offered to call off the threatened 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 went through with it).<ref name = "FORCES" />