VP candidate for Canada Party (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Canada (b. 1867)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
In 2012 Vancouver, B.C. residents Chris Cannon and Brian Calvert released their book, America, But Better : The Canada Party Manifesto. The concept was to elect Canada to the office of United States President. The idea was extended into an aggressive social media campaign, with Calvert as the public face of the Party. It was proposed the 34 million Canadians would work in shifts as President.
Here are a couple examples from the book that are also in the Canada Party platform--
GAY RIGHTS
Nearly half of Americans feel that marriage must solely comprise a man and a woman, no matter how gay one or both of them actually are. The cornerstone of the anti-gay-marriage argument is that sexual promiscuity among gays will destroy traditional marriage. Somehow, through a mathematical formula we have yet to grasp, this means the best way to stop gays from having multiple sexual partners is to deny them the one institution that would prevent them from having multiple sexual partners. We accept that there are plenty of things about America that Canadians will simply never be able to grasp, so in an attempt to be fair to the type of people who think you shouldn’t be allowed to eat cake because they are on a diet, we propose that America allow one gay couple to marry for every straight couple that gets divorced.
GUN CONTROL
Despite Canada's pathetic attempt to arm its civilians — a paltry 200 gun deaths in Canada each year, compared to America's masculine 10,000+ — we recognize that the United States is steeped in gun culture, and we wouldn't dream of infringing on Americans' second-amendment right to live in fear of British troops rolling up on the shore to unload a shipment of Royal family commemorative plates. For decades, guns have been slandered by left-wing bullet-dodgers as somehow being responsible for killing people when they are really just doing what they were designed to do: kill people. As guns actually outnumber Americans now, we believe firearms are long overdue protection from the people who use them. We are pleased to announce our Bill of Rights for Guns, affectionately known around the office as “Every Gun a Loaded Gun.”
In the Party's Nov. 2012 concession speech, Calvert vowed Canada would run again in 2016 and offered the Vice-Presidential spot to comedian Stephen Colbert. And if Colbert did not jump on board, which he did not, "after that, we're going with Mexico."
Election history: none
Other occupations: country
Notes:
PNW trivia alert!!!
