Social democracy in Canada has been a political phenomenon that became a strong political force in the 1930s with the creation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) that later developed into the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. Social democratic politics has been important in Canada's provinces and territories with the CCF/NDP having historically formed governments in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon as well as the social democratic and Quebec sovereigntist Parti Québécois forming governments in Quebec and its federal counterpart the Bloc Québécois.