I'll respond.
I can't speak for the Quebec universities in particular, but certainly if I take Dalhousie as an example of one of the G-13 research-intensive universities, of the $17 million that goes to our graduate students, about $13 million comes from the federal government, one way or the other, through direct scholarships or grant funding to professors, 80% of which goes directly to the students.
The big difference is the endowments. Dalhousie is one of the Killam institutions, so we're extremely fortunate to have a large endowment. It produces only about $2 million a year directly for graduate students. Without the large endowment, the alumnae contributions that we find in American universities, we just don't have the resources to do that. It's a very different culture. The A-minus and better students are funded, by and large, but not at the same rate as they are in American universities.
The competition in Canada has heated up tremendously in the last two or three years, with Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia doubling the number of graduate students they want in the universities but not providing enough support for them. Your daughter and your son may be accepted into these programs and then get just enough to cover tuition.
Of course your kids are going to go to the States if they're going to get a big scholarship. We need to be competitive.