Well, very briefly, you're right; these reforms—and by the way, Canada has recently been commended in a PNAS article for these reforms—mean that we're going for a set of grants from two competitions a year to one competition a year, and that explains the so-called gap that you're talking about. You're absolutely right; it's not six months as it used to be. We managed to reduce it to three months, and it affects a very small number of individuals, between 75 and 100 in the whole country. We've negotiated with the presidents of the U15 universities, research-intensive universities, to ensure there's no disruption of the work of these individuals for this period.
On May 15th, 2014. See this statement in context.