Canada's federal parties include the Bloc Québécois, which only runs candidates in Quebec and exists solely to push Quebec's separation from Canada. In 1993, it won 53 seats and became the official opposition, a feat possible because Quebec holds so many federal seats.
I just did a video explaining the Canadian federal election to Americans, uh, and I got this great comment: what is up with the Quebecs? They wouldn't want to be called the Quebecois, by the way. Um, they are only in Quebec and will never be part of the coalition. Here's the thing about— the bizarre thing about Canadian federal politics. So we have a number of political parties in Canada, right? We don't— we don't just have left and right. We have Liberal, we have Conservative. That's closest to you, like your Democrat and Republican. We have the NDP, we have the Green Party, and we have— oh, we have the PPC as well, uh, which is like far right. But we also have the Bloc Québécois. The Bloc Québécois is a federal party, okay? It runs in federal elections, the ones where the entire country votes, but it only runs candidates in Quebec because the only thing it gives a shit about is that province. It's as if there were a Democratic Party in the US, there was a clone of the Democratic Party, right? It was like a second Democratic Party, but it only gave a shit about South Carolina. That's the only thing it cared about. Although, population-wise, more like California. The Bloc Québécois, its raison d'être, as we would say in this country, is to separate from Canada. It is a separatist leading party. It has these sort of— it has informal ties to the Parti Québécois, which is the provincial government. But make no mistake, this is a federal party. When you are in Quebec and you are looking at the ballot for federal election, Bloc Québécois is one of those things. Now, because it's a federal party, if it were to get enough seats in the House of Commons— in other words, enough representatives elected in a federal election— because remember, Quebec is a huge province, it has a lot of seats because it's got a lot of population. If it were to get a lot of seats, it could in theory become the opposition party. It could get second place. There could be like a federal government, and then the second place party, which automatically becomes the opposition, could be in theory the Bloc Québécois. And that's exactly what happened in 1993. The Bloc Québécois won 53 seats. That put it in second place federally. And so our opposition party for 4 years, right, the party whose job it is to hold the federal government's feet to the fire and represent all of Canada, was the Bloc Québécois, which I might remind you, A, wants to separate Quebec from Canada, which there was a vote in my lifetime and it almost happened, and B, doesn't give a shit about the rest of Canada, literally only cares about Quebec. So yeah, we're a little weird.
Ten times Canada helped the U.S. with its wildfires, instead of whining about the smoke. 
