If people in the West want independence from Canada, don’t look to the separatist Bloc Quebecois for help in achieving the goal.

That’s the message from Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet after he met in Ottawa Wednesday with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

“If they were attempting to create a green state in Western Canada, I might be tempted to help them – if they are trying to create an oil state in Western Canada, they cannot expect any help from us,” he told reporters after the meeting.

Trudeau this week has been meeting with all opposition party leaders before the opening of Parliament next month.

Blanchet said Trudeau suggested the Bloc will see areas of consensus in the Throne speech.

Liberals were shut out of seats in Alberta and Saskatchewan and since the vote there has been a surge of Western alienation.

Blanchet told reporters he would try and make Parliament work but added he wouldn’t be losing his sovereignty goals.

“I still believe that Quebec will do better when it is a country, so I am not the one who will fight to have a nice, beautiful and united Canada,” he said.