If I correctly understood your question, I definitely see a distinction. First, these are two different provinces, and the Université du Québec en Outaouais is a constituent part of the Université du Québec. So there is a state factor, and we have to comply with provincial legislation, hence the discomfort I was describing a little earlier.
At the University of Ottawa, for example, even though there is a different system of governance, more private, the institution nevertheless receives provincial funding to assist it in developing programs for minorities, who are francophones.
At our university, we are in a border area with Ontario. That means that we could offer bilingual or multilingual programs to encourage bilingualism among our graduates, but we don't receive any provincial funding because we are a francophone university in a francophone province.
Given the fact that the rules are more “state-controlled” on the provincial side, if we could receive federal funding to assist us in this area, I think we could achieve our common objective, which is to develop bilingualism.