The Fonds de recherche du Québec contributed to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, the idea being to establish how much weight should be attributed to highly influential journals in assessing grant applications. This is something that has been heavily challenged in terms of assessing applications, and young scientists have been sending us exactly the same message.
Something else besides a researcher's education and career need to be factored in. Dissemination to the general public needs to be taken more seriously, and highly influential journals should perhaps be assigned slightly less weight. That is perhaps where there might be suggestions for further encouraging publication in French and for giving more recognition to all journals.