Gaining media attention in 1991 for its proposal to create an 11th province in southwestern Quebec, it did not maintain significant public support and never registered as an official political party before dissolving in 1993.
He withdrew from a Master's Degree program at Concordia University in Soviet history to establish Option Canada as a federal party representing Quebec's linguistic minorities.
Gogan, the party's leader, argued that English-speaking Quebecers had legitimate grievances against the "restrictive language policies [of] the provincial government", and would not tolerate being "second-class citizens in a first-class country".
[2] Gogan stated that he would abandon his proposal for an eleventh province if the Canadian Constitution were amended to remove the "notwithstanding clause", which allows governments to override binding decisions by the courts.
Option Canada dissolved in 1993, although the idea of removing federalist or anglophone areas from Quebec was continued by pro-Partition groups, such as the Equality Party.