Bloc Quebecois Party useless in Canada politics

By Andrew Austin

Gilles Duceppe said in a reply to one of the last questions of the English debate that he knew that he would not be elected prime minister and that three others at the debate wouldn’t be elected either. However, the difference between him and the three others that will lose this election is the fact that he and his party will never achieve a governing status; at best they can create an official opposition.
Voting for the Bloc is more of a wasted vote then voting for a smaller party like the NDP or the Greens. The reason that this party is so pointless is the fact that it will never achieve its objective because it doesn’t have full support in Quebec. The party only cares for the province they run in, they care nothing for the nation of Canada.
The Bloc has 75 candidates in ridings all in Quebec and in the past election they won 48 seats. The support they got made them the third most powerful party in the house. But, the only thing the Bloc can achieve is an official opposition like they did in 1993.
An official opposition is not useless, but it’s ability to achieve goals is limited; in any case a national party’s interests that lie solely in satisfying a single province agenda of separation shouldn’t be in charge of a opposing a majority or even a minority government. If we look at the Bloc’s web page we see it is completely in French, considering the fact that the majority of Canadians are actually Anglophone, we can see the disconnect that demonstrates their inability to speak on behalf of Canada as a nation.
So unless the rest of Canada suddenly wants get rid of Quebec, which seems unlikely, it looks like the Bloc party is limited by its own self-defeating ideology. With the rise in the popularity of smaller parties like the Green and the NDP we can see more votes moving away from the major parities, but let’s hope that most of the votes come from the Bloc party rather than their fellow left leaning parties.
Stephen Harper said something during his campaigning against the Bloc in Quebec that made sense.
"We want Quebecers to have more power in Ottawa; [the Bloc] want you to have less," he said.
This is absolutely true; if they voted for a party that cared for the nation rather than a province they would be more likely to advance their preferred political ideology in Ottawa. Unless of course voters simply wanted to separate every province in Canada into their own county.