This is not a trick question.
According to sociologist Raymond Breton, the more developed a language community's network of institutions is, the less likely the community is to be assimilated and the stronger its vitality is.
According to Frederick Lacroix, a Quebec author and researcher, francophones make up 80% of Quebec's population and, to ensure the future of French, we must be able to integrate newcomers, to include them. I think that about 90% of funding for institutions in Quebec such as post-secondary institutions should go to francophone institutions. Therefore, the principle of institutional completeness also applies to this situation. The principle has also been invoked to keep Montfort Hospital and for situations outside Quebec.
I don't know whether you can explain this to me: in Quebec, the Quebec government allocates about 30% of its budget to anglophone post-secondary institutions, while anglophones account for just over 8% of the population. However, in Ontario, those whose mother tongue is French account for about 4.7% of the population, and they receive 3% of the provincial budget. They are already disadvantaged by the provincial funding.
In Quebec, the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to anglophone universities is growing. Mr. Blackwell calculated that, from 2000 to 2017, 38.4% of federal funding, or $363 million, was allocated annually to anglophone universities. This means that francophone universities are receiving only 61.6% of the funding.
How would you explain this? Outside Quebec, it is sort of the opposite situation, and francophone post-secondary institutions are underfunded. Do you think that is fair?