In fact, I think we should, above all, increase research funding in French in Quebec.
I want to come back to the territorial approach. Certainly, we can fund research in French in the other provinces, and in fact Acfas is doing extraordinary work to promote research in French. However, studies show that what works is to help the language in the place where it is in the majority, where there is a big enough pool of students to organize conferences and invite colleagues from various institutions. There has to be a critical mass to fund research and there has to be a territorial approach to provide more funding for research in French in Quebec.
In the other provinces, the personality-based approach, which would let each researcher choose their language, can be used. Researchers who speak French or another language who want to do research in French in the other provinces would have to have that opportunity.
The studies are clear: the priority is to defend French in Quebec, and this calls for increasing research funding. If research funding is increased in Quebec without affecting the funding provided for research in English, the balance will be restored since, all proportions remaining the same, there will be less overfunding for research in English and more funding for research in French.