I am sure that if Québec didn't have language bigotry to impress the yokels, we'd have the same antitrans nonsense in its place.
Politicians know that people crave culture war, be it the gender of a stranger or what language that strangers talk to each other in.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-public-library-english-book-club-law-14-1.7443547