Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Perreault and Ms. Lamoureux.
Ms. Lamoureux, you piqued my curiosity when you talked about the work done by Vincent Larivière. When I read one of his publications dating from 2018, I learned that there were fewer and fewer scientific journals in French in Canada. It said that between 1940 and the end of the 1980s, the share held by English was relatively stable, at around 80 per cent, while the share held by French was about 10 per cent. However, starting with the turn of the 21st century, there has been a decline in French.
How do you explain this major decline starting in the 2000s, when before that, there was a balance between the language of publication and the number of researchers?