This <2% population are not uniformly distributed. And identity politics can and do win you seats in local councils, senates, congresses, and so on. This is t

This <2% population are not uniformly distributed. And identity politics can and do win you seats in local councils, senates, congresses, and so on. This is the very common mistake by identity politics deniers. They always say that <minority group> population is x% where x << 100. But what they forget, willingly or unwillingly, is that population is not uniformly distributed over the country and are concentrated in some parts, and a party, by appeasing the <minority> can and do win seats in democratic elections. I have seen this first hand in multiple places. Edit: I just learned that Trudeau's party is in power because of the support of a Shikh party. His party was 10 seats short of majority needed to form government. A Shikh party provided the support which put him in power.