I conducted this study a long time ago. The figures aren't up to date, unfortunately.
We can see that francophone post‑secondary institutions are significantly underfunded across Canada. Outside Quebec, the situation is particularly critical. In Ontario, the figures are fractions, small percentages. Funding is well below the demographic weight of francophones in Ontario, whose assimilation rate is now over 45%.
The correlation between the underfunding of educational institutions and the assimilation rate is obvious. This holds true everywhere in Canada, including Quebec. In Quebec, francophones are being assimilated. On the island of Montreal, 4.6% of francophones have switched from French as their mother tongue to English as the language most often spoken at home.
The same process is under way in francophone communities across Canada. It's simply further along in Ontario than in Quebec. A major part of this process is the underfunding of francophone educational institutions.
Ottawa isn't solely responsible for this underfunding. A number of factors are at play. Ottawa is a factor given the federal government's major investment in research in Quebec. The figure amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This impact is significant.