Yes, being anti-french and anti-Quebec certainly explains why he forged a deep partnership with Quebec leader George-Étienne Cartier to create an coalition promoting the unification of a country to be called Canada. He hated the Francophone George-Étienne Cartier so much that he openly shed tears at his funeral and immediately had a statute erected in his honour outside the House of Commons. 

Alternatively, simple minded labels lead to simple minded conclusions that mean nothing.