Exactly. Education comes under provincial jurisdiction. All the federal government has to do is provide funding, and give provinces the financial means to spend what they need to spend in their area of expertise. That does not exclude research. There is some ambiguity, constitutionally speaking, with regard to each level of government's role in research, but in the absence of any indication to the contrary, it comes under provincial jurisdiction. Thus, research funding should be disbursed out through existing granting organizations in Quebec.
The fact that some disciplines are specified, and strongly targeted, unfortunately reveals poor understanding of the academic environment, which can produce totally unexpected research and innovation results, without such results having been provided for in advance, somehow by remote control. In fact, our greatest breakthroughs are often unexpected. Take Watson and Crick's discovery of the DNA helix, for example. Nobody had sponsored it, yet its discovery had a huge impact. Take the studies carried out on bats, which made it possible to build radar technology, which contributed to overcoming the Nazis during World War II. That had not been forecast either, but had an unprecedented and tremendous impact. So it is truly deplorable that only some disciplines have been targeted. Every discipline is capable of coming out with major advances for the country. That freedom is what we would like to see.