Thank you for that question and for the congratulations.
I think that it is sometimes the case that people can be in a department that, say, has a particular culture, and they may feel pressured to speak in particular ways or use particular language. Our funding agencies, though, have a rubric, and the rubric is pretty extensive.
As I said, for example, for the NSERC discovery grants, which I'm most familiar with, there are three chunks. One chunk is the excellence of the research. Equity, diversity and inclusion don't show up in there, unless you're doing something that has to do with gender, in which case you have to deal with GBA+, which just means you're doing good research. There's the excellence of the researcher, and then there's highly qualified personnel.
In Canada, if you haven't thought through how to deal with the fact that you're going to get diverse applicants and that there are well-documented unintentional effects of bias on how we judge each other, then you're not doing your job as a researcher. We're publicly funded. We have an obligation to the people of Canada, which includes everyone in Canada. Then, on the flip side, we need to make sure that we are, in fact, allowing that talent to grow where it is.