Thank you, MP Cannings.
Of course, academics are infamous for being long-winded, and I'm no exception.
The area in which equity, diversity and inclusion are accounted for in specific ways is the training plan, and essentially nowhere else. Therefore, it is not part of the quality of the proposal, fundamentally, unless there is a need to include diversity in terms of how it's evaluated. The idea here is this: Is the door open in training to everybody, or is the door open to a selection of people?
An example that is extremely important to me of how this has been done successfully in the past is an anglophone professor working in the common language of science, which is English, who has implemented a number of very specific actions in the context of his research group and in terms of his department and, indeed, his university to attempt to foster and protect the use of French language in the workplace.
I'm not sure why we would want to do anything else than that. These are opportunities for us to take the whole team and enable them to participate in the academic exercise, but that is evaluated in the application process. The goal is simply to say whether this person knows how to train people who are not necessarily other white males.